Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France

di Julia Langbein (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

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 This broad survey of Salon caricature examines little-known graphic artists and unpublished amateurs alongside major figures like Édouard Manet, puts anonymous jokesters in dialogue with the essays of Baudelaire, and holds up the material qualities of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.

• Autore: Julia Langbein
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 162 mm
• Peso: 760 gr.
• EAN: 9781350186859

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