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George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art, v.1 - 1792-1835 (Hardcover)
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George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art, v.1 - 1792-1835 (Hardcover)
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The etchings and wood-engravings of George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
recorded, commented on and satirised his times to such an extent
that they have frequently been used to represent the age.
Cruikshank, a popular artist in the propaganda war against
Napoleon, an ardent campaigner for Reform and Temperance, and the
foremost illustrator of such classics as "Grimms' Fairy Tales",
Scott's novels and Dicken's "Oliver Twist", is known for his
versatility, imagination, humour and incisive images. His long
life, marked by a ceaseless struggle to win recognition for his
art, intersected with the lives of many of Britain's important
political, social and cultural leaders. In this first volume of
Robert Patten's two-volume biography, which covers the artist's
Regency caricatures and early book illustrations, Patten
demonstrates the ways in which Cruikshank was, as his
contemporaries frequently declared, the Hogarth of the nineteenth
century. Having reviewed over 8,500 unpublished letters and most of
Cruikshank's 12,000 or more printed images, Patten gives a thorough
and reliable account of the artist's career. He puts Cruikshank's
achievement into a variety of larger contexts - publishing history,
political and cultural history, the traditions of figuration
practised by Cruikshank's contemporaries, and the literary and
social productions of nineteenth century Britain. This biography
provides both the general reader and the specialist with a wealth
of new information conveyed in lively, non-technical prose.
Patten's book contributes to current investigation of the rich
interactions between high art and low, texts and pictures, politics
and imagination. Also available in this series is: "Volume II:
1835-1878".
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