Laugh Lines Caricaturing Painting in NineteenthCentury 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, and hilarious miniature in the pages of the illustrated press.This broad survey of Salon caricature examines littleknown graphic artists and unpublished amateurs alongside major figures like douard Manet, puts anonymous jokesters in dialogue with the essays of Baudelaire, and holds up the material qualities of a 10centime album to the most ambitious painting of the 19thcentury. This archival study unearths colorful caricatures that have not been reproduced until now, drawing back the curtain on a robust culture of comedy around fine art and its reception in 19thcentury France.

Binding: Hardcover;260 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: ACV; Weight: 880 g; Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 23

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