Author: Stephen Wade
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445630540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A biography of one of the most famous names in Regency satirical art.
Rowlandson's Human Comedy
Author: Stephen Wade
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445630540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A biography of one of the most famous names in Regency satirical art.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445630540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A biography of one of the most famous names in Regency satirical art.
UPROAR!
Author: Alice Loxton
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785789562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians** 'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' Dan Snow London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day. UPROAR! fizzes with energy on every page. Alice Loxton writes with verve and energy, never failing to convince in her thesis that Gillray and his gang profoundly altered British humour, setting the stage for everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Private Eye and Spitting Image today. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was - a time of UPROAR!
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785789562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians** 'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' Dan Snow London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day. UPROAR! fizzes with energy on every page. Alice Loxton writes with verve and energy, never failing to convince in her thesis that Gillray and his gang profoundly altered British humour, setting the stage for everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Private Eye and Spitting Image today. This is a book that will cause readers to reappraise everything they think they know about genteel Georgian London, and see it for what it was - a time of UPROAR!
The Art of Satire
Author: Mark Bills
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.
Time and Tide
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Time & Tide
Author: Helen A. Archdale
Publisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Picturing Animals in Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Diana Donald
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126792
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain during the century from 1750 to 1850. This highly original book investigates the rich meanings of these visual representations as well as the ways in which animals were actually used and abused. What Diana Donald discovers in this fascinating study is a deep and unresolved ambivalence that lies at the heart of human attitudes toward animals. The author brings to light dichotomies in human thinking about animals throughout this key period: awestruck with the beauty and spirit of wild animals, people nevertheless desired to capture and tame them; the belief that other species are inferior was firmly held, yet at the same time animals in stories and fables were given human attributes; though laws against animal cruelty were introduced, the overworking of horses and the allure of sport hunting persisted. Animals are central in cultural history, Donald concludes, and compelling questions about them--then and now--remain unanswered.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300126792
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
From fine art paintings by such artists as Stubbs and Landseer to zoological illustrations and popular prints, a vast array of animal images was created in Britain during the century from 1750 to 1850. This highly original book investigates the rich meanings of these visual representations as well as the ways in which animals were actually used and abused. What Diana Donald discovers in this fascinating study is a deep and unresolved ambivalence that lies at the heart of human attitudes toward animals. The author brings to light dichotomies in human thinking about animals throughout this key period: awestruck with the beauty and spirit of wild animals, people nevertheless desired to capture and tame them; the belief that other species are inferior was firmly held, yet at the same time animals in stories and fables were given human attributes; though laws against animal cruelty were introduced, the overworking of horses and the allure of sport hunting persisted. Animals are central in cultural history, Donald concludes, and compelling questions about them--then and now--remain unanswered.
The Writers Directory
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Rowlandson
Author: Frederic Gordon Roe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Comics in French
Author: Laurence Grove
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455880
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults 'who should know better', in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the 'Ninth Art' and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle onwards. On the way to providing a comprehensive introduction to the most francophone of cultural phenomena, this book considers national specificity as relevant to an anglophone reader, whilst exploring related issues such as text/image expression, historical precedents and sociological implication. To do so it presents and analyses priceless manuscripts, a Franco- American rodent, Nazi propaganda, a museum-piece urinal, intellectual gay porn and a prehistoric warrior who's really Zinedine Zidane.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455880
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults 'who should know better', in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the 'Ninth Art' and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle onwards. On the way to providing a comprehensive introduction to the most francophone of cultural phenomena, this book considers national specificity as relevant to an anglophone reader, whilst exploring related issues such as text/image expression, historical precedents and sociological implication. To do so it presents and analyses priceless manuscripts, a Franco- American rodent, Nazi propaganda, a museum-piece urinal, intellectual gay porn and a prehistoric warrior who's really Zinedine Zidane.
Britain To-day
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description