Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints
(Part of the Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1611493234
ISBN13:9781611493238
Release Date:March 2008
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Length:159 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.6" x 11.0"
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