An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.
Art historian, writer, journalist, teacher, curator, Thomas Schlesser (born 1977 in Paris) is the director of the
Fondation Hartung-Bergman. He has written extensively on the relationship between aesthetics (visual arts, literature, mass culture, etc.) and politics. He has published several works on
Gustave Courbet. His first novel,
Les Yeux de Mona (2024), was an international literary phenomenon.
