Courbet's Realism

by Michael Fried

Book Overview

"'This book, ' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Realism is a magnificent work and its very first sentence brings us up against the qualities of mind of its author, qualities that make it as impressive as it is. It allows us to reconstruct the keen eye, the commitment to perception, the gift of rapt concentration, the conviction that great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226262146
• ISBN13: 9780226262147
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"