Evaluates every aspect of the radical nineteenth-century artist's work, from his realist depictions of provincial French life and allegorical paintings to his paint-encrusted landscapes and sensual nudes, in a visual collection of essays spanning forty years of study that also considers Courbet's lasting influence. Original.

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Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.

By the end of the eighteenth century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in their relationship to the heroic past, from antiquity on. The grandness of that intellectual tradition could no longer fit into the framework of the present, and artists felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of past heroic accomplishment.Beginning with artists such as Fuseli, this was soon reflected in artistic representation. The partial image, the "crop," fragmentation, ruin and mutilation - all expressed nostalgia and grief for the loss of a vanished totality, a utopian wholeness. Often, such feelings were expressed in deliberate destructiveness and this became the new way of seeing: the notion of the modern. The "crop" constituted a distinctively modern view of the world, the essence of modernity itself.The French Revolution was not only an historical event that instituted and canonized deliberate fragmentation, but also in some cases the reverse: Jacques-Louis David and other Neo-classical artists tried, at least allegorically and metaphorically, to repair the broken link with the perceived wholeness of the past.In The Body in Pieces, Linda Nochlin traces these developments as they have been expressed in representations of the human figure - fragmented, mutilated and fetishistic - by looking at work produced by artists from Neo-classicism and Romanticism to the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, the Surrealists and beyond.

A monograph on the American artist Mary Frank, concentrating on her paintings of the last 15 years. This book features an essay by an art historian and reproduces more than 50 of Mary Frank's paintings.

Traces the development of realism in nineteenth-century art, focusing on the cultural and political changes that influenced it

Essays discuss Courbet, Pissarro, Manet, Van Gogh, Degas, and the Dreyfus Affair, Seurat, and the portrayal of the Orient

Essays discuss Courbet's life and career and are accompanied by selected paintings and drawings