Inglorious Artists by Kathryn Desplanque - 9781644533635

Name: Inglorious Artists by Kathryn Desplanque - 9781644533635
Brand: University of Delaware Press

University of Delaware Press

Inglorious ArtistsArt World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850\nAuthor(s): Kathryn Desplanque\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Delaware Press, United States\nImprint: University of Delaware Press\nISBN-13: 9781644533635, 978-1644533635\nSynopsis\nInglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of satirical images that satirized the Paris art [url] examining many of theseimages, which have never before been studied or published, this book provides a new social history of the status of the artist, revealing the ways in which the starving artist trope was used to protest the emergence of an early capitalist art market and to distinguish artists and their work from an increasingly commercial world. During this period, a series of political revoluti.