Tag: caricature
Early Modern Satire: Themes Re-Evaluations and Practices, University of Gothenburg, 2-4th November 2017
This was a three-day conference on Early Modern Satire at the University of Gothenburg. My talk addressed inter-mediality in graphic satire and took as an example a series of prints published in London in the late 1730s. Some of these attacked Walpole’s government, others defended it but all of them used animals. The paper explored the… Read More ›
High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson
A superb exhibition is currently showing at the Queen’s Gallery in London. It is curated by Kate Heard, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection and displays a great selection of the Rowlandson prints and drawings from the Windsor Castle collection. The catalogue is fantastic too with huge full-page illustrations with lots of colour and… Read More ›
Intranquillité de la caricature
A conference was held last night at the French Institute in Tel Aviv, the third part in a cycle of events commemorating the first anniversary of the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher last January in Paris. The theme was ‘the history and functions of caricature and laughter’: two presentations on historical perspectives were given… Read More ›
Charlie Hebdo: Intranquillité de la caricature
The French Institute in Israel has turned its attention to caricature to mark the first anniversary of the tragic events in Paris. Two exhibitions are currently on show. One retraces the history of caricature from the 18th through the 19th centuries in England and France. The other pays homage to those who were killed with thirty new caricatures produced… Read More ›
Rowlandson and After: Rethinking Graphic Satire
Invited speaker for a study day on British graphic satire that is being co-organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London and the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The symposium also coincides with a new exhibition on the art of Thomas Rowlandson called High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson. For more information… Read More ›
James Gillray@200: Caricaturist without a Conscience?
Saturday 28th-Sunday 29th March 2015, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England Abstract: ‘Gillray’s French jokes: the ‘sick-list’ casualties of the 1790s’ For artists like James Gillray, churning out satirical images of the French in the 1790s was a necessary duty, and even more so for someone who, from 1798, was a salaried illustrator for the Anti-Jacobite Review…. Read More ›
L’image railleuse. La satire dans l’art et la culture visuelle, du 18e siècle à nos jours, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 25, 26 et 27 juin 2015
Colloque international organisé par l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, l’Université du Québec à Montréal et le LARHRA UMR 5190 de Lyon. See Image railleuse INHA Paris Abstract: Au début des années 1770, l’exposition à Londres de vues satiriques de Paris par l’artiste amateur Henry Bunbury (1750-1810) montre que la « déqualification » satirique (« deskilling », Petherbridge, 2010:… Read More ›
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