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Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints

Contributors:

By (Author) Amelia Rauser

ISBN:

9781611493238

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

University of Delaware Press

Publication Date:

1st March 2008

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

History of art
The arts: general topics
The visual, decorative or fine arts: treatments and subjects

Dewey:

769.94209033

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

159

Dimensions:

Width 227mm, Height 291mm, Spine 16mm

Weight:

719g

Description

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 of the body, unmasking the public role and revealing the authentic private self beneath. Through the detailed analysis of specific prints and a wide-ranging compilation of historical evidence, this book constructs a rich and precise cultural history of the conceptual shift that led to the explosion of caricature in late eighteenth-century England. Complemented with seventy-eight illustrations.

Author Bio

Amelia Rauser is associate professor of art history at Franklin & Marshall College.

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