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Caricature Unmasked
Amelia Faye Rauser
其他書名
Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-century English Prints
出版Associated University Presse, 2008
主題Art / Criticism & TheoryArt / EuropeanArt / Techniques / PrintmakingArt / PrintsHumor / Form / Comic Strips & CartoonsHumor / Form / Pictorial
ISBN08741398649780874139860
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=66eT_QZ4npsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.