Research Catalog

Title

Laugh lines : caricaturing painting in nineteenth-century France / Julia Langbein.

Author

Langbein, Julia (Art historian)

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xiii, 245 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of a practice known as "Salon caricature," a practice that flourished in the Parisian illustrated press in the second half of the nineteenth century. Salon caricaturists, art critics who used both picture and text, published comic, graphic versions of the canvases concurrently on display at the Paris Salon, the most important exhibition of fine art in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The booming trade in cheaply-illustrated journals and albums broadcast these canvases-in-caricature to a readership eventually reaching the hundreds of thousands that expected and relished this annual comic inversion of high art. A survey of Salon caricature in art historical scholarship tells a skewed and partial story. The first writers on Salon caricature were advocates of Manet, who cited these caricatures as evidence that a broad public was simply incapable of understanding modernist painting--painting that emphasized form and facture as their own ends, rather than catering to the public's sentimental tastes. Still today, authors of nineteenth-century monographs on canonized "modernists" (e.g., Manet, Fréderic Bazille, Henri Fantin-Latour) include nuanced readings of individual examples of Salon caricature, yet this nevertheless reinforces the view that future modernists were the only ones mocked. In contrast, Laugh Lines draws back the curtain on a robust culture of comedy around fine art and its reception in nineteenth-century France, one in which artists of every stripe, including the most sentimental or conservative, were ripe to be made hilarious."--

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Parody in art
• Caricature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Caricatures and cartoons > France > History > 19th century
• French wit and humor, Pictorial
• Caricature
• Caricatures and cartoons
• France
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Comic Reproduction in July Monarchy Paris -- 2. Dueling and Doubling: The Antagonism of Salon Caricature -- 3. Salon Caricature and The Physiognomy of Paint -- 4. Salon Caricature in the age of Reproduction. -- 5. Gravity and Graphic Medium in Cham and Daumier -- 6. Caricature and Comic Spectacle at the Paris Salon -- 7. Salon Caricature and the Making of Manet.

Call Number

JQE 22-903

ISBN

• 9781350186859
• 1350186856

OCLC

1295109789

Author

Langbein, Julia (Art historian), author.

Title

Laugh lines : caricaturing painting in nineteenth-century France / Julia Langbein.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Research Call Number

JQE 22-903