Summary:

Searing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across
the world - the culmination, not the beginning, of the story of one
of modernity's definitive artistic practices. Modern visual satire
erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering
nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of
art history. This has long been recognized as its Golden Age. It is
time to look anew. In "The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838",
an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational team of
scholars reconfigures the geography of modern visual satire, as the
expansive narrative reaches from North America to Europe, to China
and the Ottoman Empire. Caricature's specific visual cultures are
also laid bare, its iconographic means and material support, as well
as the diverse milieu of its making-the military, the art academy,
diplomacy, politics, art criticism, and popular entertainment. Some
of its greatest practitioners - James Gillray and Honore Daumier -
are seen in new light, alongside some of their far flung and
opportunistic pastichers. Most trenchantly, assumptions about the
consequences of caricature's rise come under intense scrutiny,
interrogated for its cherished and long-vaunted civilizational claims
on individual character, artistic supremacy, political liberty, and
global domination.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 741.56909033 -- Drawing & drawings

Book Details:

Physical Description: 240 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2011-01-01

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