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Caricature Unmasked
Amelia Rauser
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Description for Caricature Unmasked
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture. Num Pages: 159 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 289 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 724.
This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self. Caricature and the modern self developed in tandem: as the modern notion of selfhood_with its valorization of interiority, private authenticity, and consistency across time_rather suddenly replaced older, more flexible notions of identity, so caricature developed as a technology for representing this new self, making character visible on the surface ... Read more
This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self. Caricature and the modern self developed in tandem: as the modern notion of selfhood_with its valorization of interiority, private authenticity, and consistency across time_rather suddenly replaced older, more flexible notions of identity, so caricature developed as a technology for representing this new self, making character visible on the surface ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493238
SKU
V9781611493238
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About Amelia Rauser
Amelia Rauser is associate professor of art history at Franklin & Marshall College.
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