The Absolute Bourgeois author-john-barnicoat When this book and its

When this book and its companion volume Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution appeared in 1973

haunted by his own Liberty Guiding the People

000 copies were originally produced

His prodigious creativity in all media is maginficently conveyed in this beautiful and original study

Basing its approach on a historical and explanatory survey

The Absolute Bourgeois author-john-barnicoat When this book and itsWhen this book and its companion volume Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution appeared in 1973, they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about. 'A justification of a certain kind of art history,' was how The Spectator put it. 'The Absolute Bourgeois', said The Times, 'is a product of that school of art history whose history is as well read as its art, and whilst it covers only a small area of time and