The SaintAubin Livre De Caricatures: Drawing Satire in Eighteenthcentury Paris (French and English Edition),Used

The SaintAubin Livre De Caricatures: Drawing Satire in Eighteenthcentury Paris (French and English Edition),Used

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Out of public sight for over a hundred years, the Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises is a remarkable work. This collection of comic and satirical drawings was created by a Parisian luxury embroiderer, CharlesGermain de SaintAubin, at a time of rigid press censorship to entertain a small group of family and friends. For todays reader the Livreprovides not only a series of richly imaginative and varied drawings, but also a fascinating and intriguing commentary on preRevolutionary Paris.In this first comprehensive study of the Livre de caricatures, which includes over 190 illustrations, an international team of scholars investigates the motivations and operations behind the making of the book, and the many facets of Parisian life that it illuminates. Embracing politics and religion, theatre, fashion and connoisseurship, and the court of Versailles and the Parisian streets, the scope of the Livre is immense. The works unique quality is evident in its humour whimsical, fantastical, challengingly allusive, but not without a sharp political edge when targeting clerics, the court and Louis XVs mistress, Madame de Pompadour.Known within the SaintAubin family as the Livre de culs, the Livre delights in the transgression of social convention and the keen deflation of vanity and pretence. Contributors explore this irreverent image of eighteenthcentury Paris in all its glory. In todays world, the visual satire of the Livre de Caricatures continues to resonate, instruct and entertain.

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