The efflorescence of caricature, 1759-1838 / Todd Porterfield.
Published / Created:
Surrey, UK, England ; Ashgate, 2010.Burlington, Vt : Ashgate, 2010.
Physical Description:
xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Introduction. The efflorescence of caricature / Todd Porterfield -- Caricature on the edge of empire : George Townshend in Quebec / Dominic Hardy -- Early modern Dutch emblems and French visual satire : transfers of models across the eighteenth century / Pierre Wachenheim -- John Bull, liberty and wit : how England became caricature / Reva Wolf -- On bended knee : James Gillray's global view of courtly encounter / Douglas Fordham -- The light of wisdom : magic lanternists as truth-tellers in post-revolutionary France / Helen Weston -- The currency of caricature in revolutionary France / Richard Taws --The public and the limits of persuasion in the age of caricature / Mike Goode -- Signifying shape in pan-European caricature / Richard L. Patten -- James Gillray, caricaturist and modernist artist avant la lettre / Christina Oberstebrink-- Caricature's musée imaginaire / Ségolène Le Men.
Subject Terms:
Caricature -- History -- 18th century. | Caricature -- History -- 19th century. | Art and society -- History -- 18th century. | Art and society -- History -- 19th century.