Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France

by Julia Langbein

Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in which press artists drew comic versions of contemporary painting and sculpture for publication in widely consumed journals and albums. Salon caricature began with a few tentative lithographs in the 1840s and within a few decades, no Parisian exhibition could open without appearing in warped, incisive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350186856
• ISBN13: 9781350186859
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 256 Pages