Honori-Victorin Daumier was a masterfully versatile artist, creating powerful works in lithography, pen and ink, sculpture, watercolor, and oil. This beautiful book explores the astonishing breadth of his achievement. Written by eminent figures in the artworld, the book illuminates Daumier's success as a political and social satirist, showing how he identified with the dispossessed, the poor, and the oppressed. The authors point out that lithography was Daumier's weapon in humorous attacks on patronage (Gargantua) and in ...
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Honori-Victorin Daumier was a masterfully versatile artist, creating powerful works in lithography, pen and ink, sculpture, watercolor, and oil. This beautiful book explores the astonishing breadth of his achievement. Written by eminent figures in the artworld, the book illuminates Daumier's success as a political and social satirist, showing how he identified with the dispossessed, the poor, and the oppressed. The authors point out that lithography was Daumier's weapon in humorous attacks on patronage (Gargantua) and in stark exposures of injustice (Rue Transnonain), while his paintings and drawings recorded scenes of emigration (The Fugitives), and public transport (The Third-Class Carriage). Daumier's sculpture parodied political abuses (Ratapoil) and caricatured pompous and self-important public figures (The Celebrites series from La Caricature and Le Charivari), and his watercolours captured his disdain for lawyers and judges (The Speech for the Defence) and his empathy for the poor (The Soup). With lavish reproductions, each accompanied by apparatus, commentary, and provenance, the book is a vivid testimony of Daumier's ongoing legacy. This book is the catalogue for an exhibi
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Good (EX-Library with stamps on text block and sticker on back cover; boards show shelfwear and smudging; text block shows shelfwear. Pages are clean and bright; binding is solid. ) Yellow boards with green lettering; Ex-Library copy; 599 pp.; 369 mostly color plates. Text is in English. Ex-Library copy. A very nice copy, and wonderful book. Contents as follows: Plates from Le Boulevard and Souvenirs d'artistes--Lithographs published under the Authoritarian Empire--Collectors and art-lovers (the 1860s)--The theatre (the 1860s)--Public transport--Lawyers (1865-1868)--Men singing, relaxing, drinking...--Saltimbanques--The last allegorical and political lithographs (1869-1871)--Late works--Don Quixote--Chronology / Dominique Lobstein--Collectors, dealers, and admirers / Dominique Lobstein with Catherine L. Blais. Essays. Situating Daumier / Henri Loyrette--"Son rêve, en effet, a été la peinture" / Michael Pantazzi--Daumier and printmaking / Ségolène Le Men--"He also does sculpture / Édouard Papet--Daumier, art, and politics / Michel Melot--Catalogue. Daumier's beginnings--Political caricature (1830-1835)--Portrait-caricatures--Men of the people--Philipon versus Philippe--Illustration, social caricature, and parody (1835-1848)--The physiology of the bourgeoisie as depicted in the Charivari series--Paintings from the 1840s--1848 and Second Republic--Major projects and the salons of 1848-1852--Ratapoil--Fugitives--Quai d'Anjou--Croquis d'artistes from the 1850s--Paintings from the 1850s--Molière and the theatre--Lawyers (1861-1862)--Plates from Le Boulevard and Souvenirs d'artistes--Lithographs published under the Authoritarian Empire--Collectors and art-lovers (the 1860s)--The theatre (the 1860s)--Public transport--Lawyers (1865-1868)--Men singing, relaxing, drinking...--Saltimbanques--The last allegorical and political lithographs (1869-1871)--Late works--Don Quixote--Appendices. Chronology / Dominique Lobstein--Collectors, dealers, and admirers / Dominique Lobstein with Catherine L. Blais. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Ottawa, Canada: Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, June 11 to Sept. 6, 1999, two other dates.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean tight illustrated hardcover in jacket, a very good copy in a very good jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
