A groundbreaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting

Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne. This series has long been neglected in favor of Courbet's paintings of rural French life. Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting explores these astonishing paintings, staking a claim for their importance to Courbet's work and later developments in French modernism.

Ranging from the grottoes of Courbet's native Franche-Comté to the beaches of Normandy, Paul Galvez follows the artist on his travels as he uses a palette-knife to transform the Romantic landscape of voyage into a direct, visceral confrontation with the material world. The Courbet he discovers is not the celebrated history painter of provincial life, but a committed landscapist whose view of nature aligns him with contemporary developments in geology, history, linguistics, and literature.

对古斯塔夫·库尔贝（Gustave Courbet）和他在风景画方面的大胆尝试的突破性见解

1862年至1866年期间，古斯塔夫·库尔贝开始创作一系列感性的风景画，这些作品后来启发了莫奈、毕沙罗和塞尚等人。这一系列作品一直不如库尔贝的法国农村生活画受重视。本书探讨了这些惊人的画作，阐述了它们对库尔贝的作品和法国现代主义的后期发展的重要性。

从库尔贝故乡弗朗什-孔泰的石窟到诺曼底的海滩，保罗·加尔维兹（Paul Galvez）跟随这位艺术家的旅行，他用调色刀将浪漫主义的航海景观转变为与物质世界的直接、直观的对抗。他发现的库尔贝并不是知名的乡村历史画家，而是一位坚定的风景画家，他的自然观与当代地质学、历史、语言学和文学的发展相一致。