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the other sides of midnight
Sin City. The moral cautionary tales as a somewhat more narrative and less complex representation than say Bruegel or Bosch though there is more sophistication than the often caricaturial elements would imply; misunderstood, these, over time become trivialized until they … Continue reading
comic history : royal bedding of madcap laughs
The Victorians seemed to have an avaricious relationship with history. They simultaneously were involved in the creation of it and when taking a respite from this burden of civilizing humanity they were reading it; endlessly and for the authors quite … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged British caricature, British Cartoon, Charles Dickens, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, John Flaxman, John Leech, John Leech caricature, John Leech engravings, John Tenniel, Robert Cruickshank, Thackeray, Thomas a Beckett, Thomas Rowlandson, William Makepiece Thackeray
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MOCKERY, MACARONIS & MAYHEM
”He on all occasions professes a detestation of what he calls ”can’t”; says it will banish from England all that is pure and good; and that while people are looking after the shadow, they lose the substance of the goodness; … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged British caricature, Byron, Charles Dickens, Charles Philipon, Daumier, Dickens Sketches by Boz, Eliakim Littell, Erhard Schoen, George Cruickshank, George Townshend, Gerald Scarfe, Herbert M. Atherton, Honore Daumier, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, James Gillray, Lord Byron, Martin Myrone, Mary Darly, Matthew Darly, Philip Dawe, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Selwyn Briton, Sir Robert Peel, Thomas Rowlandson, William Heath, William Hogarth, William Hone
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