Daumier and Exoticism
Satirizing the French and the Foreign
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Word Count
63,000 words, Guess
Page Count
252 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL11397491M
- ISBN-139780820469454
- ISBN-100820469459
- OCLC Control Number53459189
- Library of Congress Control Number2003025196
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- Goodreads2568047
Classifications
- LCCNC1499.D3A4 2005
Description
"Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honore Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the role of exoticism in his art, and to offer a detailed history of the journal Le Charivari in which the lithographs appeared. These satires of China, Haiti, the United States, Africa, and the Middle East not only target the theater of international politics, but also draw on a broad range of physical stereotypes supported by contemporary ideas about race and cultural difference. In an art of comic inversion, Daumier used the exotic to expose the foibles and pretensions of the Parisian bourgeoisie. A pacifist and a Republican, Daumier also satirized the non-European world in order to covertly attack the imperialism of Napoleon III in an age of press censorship. Idealistic as well as pragmatic, he used humor to stage political critique as well as to envision a more unified and compassionate world."--BOOK JACKET.
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