Laugh Lines : Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France Hardback
by Julia (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Langbein
Hardback
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Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in which press artists drew comic versions of contemporary painting and sculpture for publication in widely consumed journals and albums.
Salon caricature began with a few tentative lithographs in the 1840s and within a few decades, no Parisian exhibition could open without appearing in warped, incisive, and hilarious miniature in the pages of the illustrated press. This broad survey of Salon caricature examines little-known graphic artists and unpublished amateurs alongside major figures like Édouard Manet, puts anonymous jokesters in dialogue with the essays of Baudelaire, and holds up the material qualities of a 10-centime album to the most ambitious painting of the 19th-century.
This archival study unearths colorful caricatures that have not been reproduced until now, drawing back the curtain on a robust culture of comedy around fine art and its reception in 19th-century France.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 43 colour and 46 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781350186859
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 43 colour and 46 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350186859