In What Way Was Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers an Explicit Political

question 60

Multiple Choice

In what way was Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers an explicit political statement?

• A) He refused to exhibit it in the Salon.
• B) His elevated his lower-class subject to the heroic status afforded history painting.
• C) He rejected academic conventions to idealize the subject.
• D) He depicted an actual event that spawned violent protests outside the city of Ornans.

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Definitions:

Norms and Values

Socially shared rules and expectations that guide behavior within a group, alongside the fundamental beliefs and ideals that bring a community together.

Social Structures

Patterns of organized relationships and social institutions that together compose society, guiding and constraining individual behaviors.

Sociological Perspectives

Different ways of viewing and understanding society and its complex interactions, including structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.

Authority and Subordination

The dynamic between those in positions of power and those who are subject to that power.