Download PDF - John Rule Art Book Distribution

Available: January 2013
ISBN: 9789637063954
Price: £25.00
Format: Paperback
Pages: 123
Illustrations: 80 col & b/w
Size: 280 x 225 mm
Category: Art
Rights: Worldwide exc. Hungary
Available: January 2013
ISBN: 9789637063930
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 102 col & b/w
Size: 295 x 240 mm
Category: Art
Rights: Worldwide exc. Hungary
A Satirist, a Scoffer:
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879)
The Master of French Caricature
Zsuzsa Gonda
This is the catalogue of an exhibition running from October 2012 to
March 2013 comprising the earliest Daumier prints in the museum’s
collection, including political caricatures created in the 1830s which
were published in various satirical magazines. The catalogue also
features works by some of his contemporaries Eduardo de Beaumont,
Cham (Amedee de Noe) , Paul Gavarni and August Canzi. Included
in this series of works the artist targeted the “pear-head” Louis-
Philippe, the Citizen King, but also parodied politicians and members
of parliament who were in his service. His most well-known caricatures
were conceived in defence of the freedom of the press and of speech.
The essays consider his Early Career and Political Caricatures, Social
Satire in Le Charivari (1835-1848), the Second Republic in the eyes of a
Republican, and the Second Empire and his Final Years.
New Ideal of Beauty in The Century of
Pieter Bruegel
Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Drawings
in The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Teréz Gerszi
This catalogue, produced for an exhibition which ran from June to
September 2012, analyses the most intriguing question of sixteenthcentury
Netherlandish art: Italian Orientation, that is how Late Gothic
art was transformed under the influence of Italian inspiration. The
catalogue questions different ways artists chose to respond to new
artistic requirements of their age while keeping with essential elements
of their own national traditions. At a time of stormy historical events
in the sixteenth-century the Netherlands underwent vast changes in
its intellectual life and the arts. This century saw a deepening of the
divide between medieval and modern cultures with Italian Humanism
and Renaissance playing a major role in the formation of the new,
humanistic system of values. This was the first time the Museum of
Fine Arts staged an exhibition solely devoted to sixteenth-century
Netherlandish drawings.
JOHN RULE Spring 2013
Art
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