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Art Against Censorship : Honore Daumier, Comedy, and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France by Duncan-O'Neill, Erin

Art Against Censorship : Honore Daumier, Comedy, and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France by Duncan-O'Neill, Erin

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c 1800 to c 1900
9781526176011
Honoré Daumier (1808–79), who was imprisoned early on for a politically offensive cartoon, painted scenes from seventeenth-century theatre and literature at moments of stifling censorship later in his career. He continued to find form for dangerous political dissent in the face of intense and shifting censorship laws by drawing on La Fontaine, Molière, and Cervantes, masters of dissimulation and critique in a newly glorified literary past. This book reveals new connections between legal repression and subversive fine-arts practice, showing the force of Daumier’s role in the broader stories of image-text relationships and political expression. -- .
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