Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the rol

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 art

Women in 19th-century French art were represented as victims of a harsh urban working-class life. This book offers the argument that this representation obscure

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tum

This study examines how authors responded to the Haitian Revolution with revisionist narratives that seek to support empire or rebellion, while focusing on the