"This important book will instantly claim a place among the
standard works on Courbet. Petra Chu has done an admirable job of
tying together art, literature, and history to put Courbet in
context in a way that has not been done before. She reveals a
Courbet who is ambitious to succeed and who realizes that the new
media of nineteenth-century France can be harnessed to his
ambition. With this book, Chu brings to fruition a lifetime of
studying Courbet and nineteenth-century French art."--Patricia
Mainardi, City University of New York
"Petra Chu has worked on Courbet throughout her long and
productive career and this book is a capstone of her work, the
product of considerable thought, insight, perception, and
interpretation. Covering all phases of his evolution, from his
earliest self-portraits to his late landscapes, she contextualizes
Courbet in new ways and ties him to celebrity and media culture so
that we can see how he thought as well as why he reacted in his
work as he did. This is no small achievement."--Gabriel P.
Weisberg, University of Minnesota
""The Most Arrogant Man in France" is an original study of
Courbet's entrepreneurial methods, and as such distinguishes itself
from the rest of the voluminous recent writing on the artist. Petra
Chu carefully sifts through Courbet's contacts with the press,
newly investigates his patronage, and speculates about his appeal
to the wider public. The book will interest not just art historians
but also general readers since it dissects the intelligence and
entrepreneurial flair of a canonical artistic personality who
anticipates artists such as Dali and Warhol."--Albert Boime,
UCLA
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