Romanticism and caricature /
Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrat...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
103. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how this art form transformed Romantic-era politics into a unique and compelling spectacle of corruption, monstrosity and resistance. New light is cast on major Romantic controversies including the 'revolution debate' of the 1790s, the impact of Thomas Paine's 'infidel' Age of Reason, the introduction of paper money and the resulting explosion of executions for forgery, the propaganda campaign against Napoleon, the revolution in Spain, the Peterloo massacre, the Queen Caroline scandal, and the Reform Bill crisis. Overall, the volume offers important new insights into the relationship between art, satire and politics in a key period of history.-- Lively, richly illustrated study of iconic caricatures, showing the interrelationship between art, satire and politics in the Romantic period. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-216) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781107360020 1107360021 9781461950912 1461950910 9781107497481 1107497485 1107521300 9781107521308 1139893718 9781139893718 1107501407 9781107501409 1107506778 9781107506770 1107517192 9781107517196 1107504104 9781107504103 9781107620681 1107620686 |