Réalisé par C.-G. de Saint-Aubin, le Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises se compose d'environ 400 dessins réalisés des années 1740 aux années 1770. Ils traitent de politique, de religion, du théâtre, de la mode, de la cour de Versailles et de la vie parisienne. Ces contributions explorent le regard critique que pose l'artiste sur l'époque et le règne de Louis XV. ©Electre 2025
Out of public sight for over a hundred years, the Livre de caricatures tant bonnes que mauvaises is a remarkable work. Tins collection of comic and satirical drawings was created by a Parisian luxury embroiderer, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, at a time of rigid press censorship, to entertain a small group of family and friends. For today's reader the Livre provides not only a series of richly imaginative and varied drawings, but also a fascinating and intriguing commentary on pre-Revolutionary 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, the court of Versailles and the Parisian streets, the scope of the Livre is immense. The work's 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 XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.
Known within the Saint-Aubin 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 eighteenth-century Paris in all its glory. In today's world, the visual satire of the Livre de caricatures continues to resonate, instruct and entertain.
Paru le : 26/06/2012
Thématique : Histoire de la peinture
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Voltaire Foundation
Collection(s) : Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century
Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Colin Jones - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Juliet Carey - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Emily Richardson
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-0-7294-1044-1
EAN13 : 9780729410441
Reliure : Broché
Pages : VIII-481
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 3.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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