Böcker av Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu

This book deals with the theme of landscape by presenting a set of important works by Gustave Courbet and other 19th century artists. Text in English and French.

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, this book offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.

The modern artist strives to be independent of the publicness taste - and yet depends on the public for a living. This book argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him.