Monographs
Paul Galvez
Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting
Yale University Press, 2022
Reviews
‘A brilliant and provocative tour de force that places these works on fertile new ground, with important consequences for following generations’ – James H. Rubin, author of Why Monet Matters, 2022
‘Highly original, engaging and eloquent, Courbet’s Landscapes radically recasts our understanding of the painter of Ornans, offering a fresh insight into how one painted in nineteenth-century France’ –
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, University of Harvard, 2022
Summary
• A ground-breaking insight into Gustave Courbet and his bold experiments in landscape painting that would later inspire Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne
• Exploring Courbet’s use of the palette knife in his paintings of his native Franche-Comté and the beaches of Normandy,
Paul Galvez discovers a committed landscapist whose view of nature aligns him with contemporary developments
in geology, history, linguistics and literature
‘Roz went above and beyond to consider the overall structure and holistic needs of this text, enabling its highly original arguments to shine through’ – Julie Hrischeva, Editor, Art and Architecture, Yale University Press London, 2021