"'This book,' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Reali

Gustave Courbet (1819-77) was a French artist whose work heralded the realist movement of the nineteenth century and his paintings have had a profound influence

"A highly original and gripping account of the works of Eakins and Crane. That remarkable combination of close reading and close viewing which Fried uniquely co