Image of the people

'Image of the People' is a noteworthy discussion of the work of Gustave Courbet in the years directly after the 1848 revolution. Showing how complex Courbet�s intuition of the social and political issues of the time really was, the book also reveals how exactly appropriate were the pictures he painted for the Salon of 1851 - the Burial at Ornans, the Stonebreakers and the Peasants of Flagey.