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The Saint-Aubin 'Livre De Caricatures' - Drawing satire in eighteenth-century Paris (Paperback, New ed.) Loot Price: R3,044
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The Saint-Aubin 'Livre De Caricatures' - Drawing satire in eighteenth-century Paris (Paperback, New ed.): Colin...

The Saint-Aubin 'Livre De Caricatures' - Drawing satire in eighteenth-century Paris (Paperback, New ed.)

Colin Jones, Juliet Carey, Emily Richardson

Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2012:06

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Out of public sight for over a hundred years, the Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises is a remarkable work. This collection of comic and satirical drawings was created by a Parisian luxury embroiderer, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, at a time of rigid press censorship to entertain a small group of family and friends. For today's reader the Livreprovides not only a series of richly imaginative and varied drawings, but also a fascinating and intriguing commentary on pre-Revolutionary Paris. In this first comprehensive study of the Livre de caricatures, which includes over 190 illustrations, an international team of scholars investigates the motivations and operations behind the making of the book, and the many facets of Parisian life that it illuminates. Embracing politics and religion, theatre, fashion and connoisseurship, and the court of Versailles and the Parisian streets, the scope of the Livre is immense. The work's unique quality is evident in its humour - whimsical, fantastical, challengingly allusive, but not without a sharp political edge when targeting clerics, the court and Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Known within the Saint-Aubin family as the Livre de culs, the Livre delights in the transgression of social convention and the keen deflation of vanity and pretence. Contributors explore this irreverent image of eighteenth-century Paris in all its glory. In today's world, the visual satire of the Livre de Caricatures continues to resonate, instruct and entertain.

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Imprint: Voltaire Foundation
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2012:06
Release date: June 2012
Editors: Colin Jones • Juliet Carey • Emily Richardson
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 683
Edition: New ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1044-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
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LSN: 0-7294-1044-7
Barcode: 9780729410441

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