I found an intersection of my education in art and my interest in far left politics. I always knew Gustave Courbet as the self aggrandizing prick who compared himself to God and made a painting of a close-up pussy and called it "The Origin of the World". Apparently he was also one of the first anarchists and was involved in the Paris Commune, the first communist revolution. There doesn't seem to be much if any writing about Courbet from a leftist perspective easily available. Might fuck around and make a blog post about French Realism and the beginnings of socialism. Pubski is good because we can write about stupid shit we're into once a week without it being its own post. Yall might have to ignore my blog post if I get around to it. Sorry in advance
I really don't know how to write it. Art history is good at showing you how one artist influenced another but not so much about the actual history of the time. And The Collected Letters of Gustave Courbet is out of print and $130 on Amazon. I'll start paying attention to 19th century French history as I browse the web and keep an eye out for the name Pierre-Joseph Poonhound. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I almost kinda feel like a masters in art history wouldn't be the equivalent of burning tens of thousands of dollars (His name is Proudhon but I prefer my spelling.)