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"In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with a form of limitless reproduction that threatened to dematerialize solid bodies and replace them with insubstantial shadows. Media Critique in the Age of Gillray centres on printed images and graphic satires which view paper as the foundation for the contemporary world. Through a focus on printed, visual imagery from practitioners such as James Gillray, William Blake, John Thomas Smith, and Henry Fuseli, the book addresses challenges posed by reproductive technologies to traditional concepts of subjective agency. Joseph Monteyne shows that the late eighteenth-century paper age's baseless fabric set the stage for contemporary digital media's weightless production. Engagingly written and abundantly illustrated, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray highlights the fact that graphic culture has been overlooked as an important sphere for the production of critical and self-reflective discourses around media transformations and the visual turn in British culture."--
English wit and humor, Pictorial --- Prints --- Prints, English --- History --- Social aspects --- 1700-1799 --- England. --- Angleterre --- England --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Caricatures et dessins humoristiques. --- Social life and customs --- Caricatures and cartoons. --- Henry Fuseli. --- James Gillray. --- John Thomas Smith. --- William Blake. --- ballad sellers. --- culture. --- dark media. --- defaced pictures. --- eighteenth-century London. --- graphic satire. --- mass media. --- paper. --- phantasmagoria. --- print culture.
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"A key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious in his own time, but today appears mainly as a supporting character in studies of 1790s literary activism. Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama authoritatively reintroduces and reestablishes this central figure of the revolutionary decade by examining his life, plays, memoirs, and personal correspondence. In engaging with theatrical censorship, apostacy, and the response of audiences and critics to radical drama, this thoughtful study also demonstrates how theater functions in times of political repression. Despite his struggles, Holcroft also had major successes: this book examines his surprisingly robust afterlife, as his plays, especially The Road to Ruin, were repeatedly revived worldwide in the nineteenth century"--
English drama --- History and criticism. --- Holcroft, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Thomas Holcroft, Treason Trials, melodrama, theater censorship, working-class life writing, William Godwin, Sir Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray, Robert Dighton, Richard Newton, Samuel de Wilde, William Mulready, radicalism, authorship, life writing, afterlives, The Road to Ruin, eighteenth-century theater, nineteenth-century theater, theater and performance, literary activism, 1790s, radical drama, eighteenth-century political activism.
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An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics.Beginning in the Reformation, when printed visual matter was first produced in multiples, Liz McQuiston follows the iconic images that have accompanied movements and events around the world. She examines fine art and propaganda, including William Hogarth's Gin Lane, Thomas Nast's political caricatures, French and British comics, postcards from the women's suffrage movement, clothing of the 1960s counterculture, the anti-apartheid illustrated book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the "Silence=Death" emblem from the AIDS crisis, murals created during the Arab Spring, electronic graphics from Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and the front cover of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Providing a visual exploration both joyful and brutal, McQuiston discusses how graphics have been used to protest wars, call for the end to racial discrimination, demand freedom from tyranny, and satirize authority figures and regimes.From the French, Mexican, and Sandinista revolutions to the American civil rights movement, nuclear disarmament, and the Women's March of 2017, Protest! documents the integral role of the visual arts in passionate efforts for change.
Political art. --- Political posters --- Protest movements. --- ART / Art & Politics. --- Social movements --- Campaign posters --- Political collectibles --- Posters --- Activist art --- Protest art --- Resistance art --- Social art --- Art --- History. --- Political sociology --- Graphic arts --- graphic design --- history [discipline] --- revolutions --- political art --- graphic arts --- Activism. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Adolf. --- Advertising campaign. --- Advertising. --- Alamy. --- Alberto Korda. --- Anti-war movement. --- Apartheid. --- Art movement. --- Ben Shahn. --- Black people. --- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. --- Caricature. --- Cartoon. --- Cartoonist. --- Charlie Hebdo. --- Che Guevara. --- Civil disobedience. --- Civilization. --- Combatant. --- Communism. --- Dada. --- Defamation. --- Designer. --- Dictatorship. --- Editorial cartoon. --- El Lissitzky. --- Emblem. --- Environmentalism. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Film poster. --- George Grosz. --- Global warming. --- Guerrilla Girls. --- Gulf War. --- Harper's Weekly. --- Headline. --- Iconography. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- James Gillray. --- Je suis Charlie. --- Jesus Barraza. --- John Heartfield. --- LGBT. --- Le Charivari. --- Manifesto. --- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. --- Modernism. --- Mushroom cloud. --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. --- Nazi Germany. --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- Newspaper. --- Nicaragua. --- Nuclear disarmament. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Nuclear weapon. --- Pamphlet. --- Pass laws. --- Photomontage. --- Political satire. --- Politician. --- Postcard. --- Poster. --- Power politics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protest. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Racial segregation. --- Racism. --- Riot police. --- Sacco and Vanzetti. --- Satire. --- See Red Women's Workshop. --- Sexism. --- Simplicissimus. --- Soviet Union. --- Spanish Civil War. --- Special Relationship. --- Suffrage. --- Suffragette. --- Tear gas. --- Technology. --- Terrorism. --- The Quarto Group. --- Their Lives. --- Thomas Nast. --- Thomas Rowlandson. --- To This Day. --- Trade union. --- Trafalgar Square. --- Trayvon Martin. --- Tristan Tzara. --- Typography. --- Unemployment. --- communication design
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"From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the "twelve Caesars," from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian. Twelve Caesars asks why these murderous autocrats have loomed so large in art from antiquity and the Renaissance to today, when hapless leaders are still caricatured as Neros fiddling while Rome burns.Beginning with the importance of imperial portraits in Roman politics, this richly illustrated book offers a tour through 2,000 years of art and cultural history, presenting a fresh look at works by artists from Memling and Mantegna to the nineteenth-century African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, as well as by generations of now-forgotten weavers, cabinetmakers, silversmiths, printers, and ceramicists. Rather than a story of a simple repetition of stable, blandly conservative images of imperial men and women, Twelve Caesars is an unexpected tale of changing identities, clueless or deliberate misidentifications, fakes, and often ambivalent representations of authority.From Beard's reconstruction of Titian's extraordinary lost Room of the Emperors to her reinterpretation of Henry VIII's famous Caesarian tapestries, Twelve Caesars includes some fascinating detective work and offers a gripping story of some of the most challenging and disturbing portraits of power ever created.Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC"--
Kings and rulers --- Power (Social sciences) in art --- Emperors --- Art, Roman --- Art --- History of civilization --- power --- portraits --- rulers [people] --- Roman emperors --- Portraits --- Power (Social sciences) in art. --- History / Ancient / Rome --- Art / History / General --- Kings and rulers - Portraits --- Emperors - Rome - Portraits --- Art, Roman - Influence --- Kings and rulers. --- Emperors. --- ART / History / General. --- HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- Czars (Emperors) --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Influence. --- Rome (Empire) --- Aeneid. --- Agrippina the Younger. --- Alessandro Farnese (cardinal). --- Ancient Rome. --- Ancient art. --- Ancient history. --- Andrea Fulvio. --- Andrea Mantegna. --- Anselm Kiefer. --- Antistrophe. --- Antoninus Pius. --- Antonio Verrio. --- Assassination. --- Aubrey Beardsley. --- Augustan History. --- Autocracy. --- Banality (sculpture series). --- Bembo. --- Brindisi. --- Bust (sculpture). --- Caesarism. --- Camerino. --- Capitoline Museums. --- Caption (comics convention). --- Caracalla. --- Cardinal Mazarin. --- Chris Riddell. --- Christina, Queen of Sweden. --- Classicism. --- Claudius. --- Commodus. --- Cosimo de' Medici. --- Crucifixion of Jesus. --- Decapitation. --- Della Rovere. --- Denarius. --- Domitian. --- Domus Aurea. --- Egypt (Roman province). --- Elagabalus. --- Engraving. --- Giambattista della Porta. --- Giulio Romano. --- Gonzaga Cameo. --- Hans Memling. --- Heroic nudity. --- Illustration. --- Imperial Armour. --- Imperialism. --- Ippolito Buzzi. --- James Gillray. --- Judas Iscariot. --- Kerameikos. --- La Dolce Vita. --- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. --- Livilla. --- Longevity. --- Manuscript. --- Marcantonio Raimondi. --- Max Beerbohm. --- Messalina. --- Middle class. --- Misogyny. --- Nativity scene. --- Nicolas Coustou. --- Nobility. --- Oliver Cromwell. --- Ostia (Rome). --- Paganism. --- Palinode. --- Peace treaty. --- Petrarch. --- Phrenology. --- Placard. --- Portland Vase. --- Putto. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Imperial Coinage. --- Roman sculpture. --- Ruler. --- Sandro Botticelli. --- Satire. --- Schatzkammer. --- Scientific Method. --- Sculpture. --- Sophocles. --- Statue. --- Suetonius. --- Sulla. --- Tapestry. --- The Caesars (TV series). --- The Twelve Caesars. --- Thomas Couture. --- Tintoretto. --- Titian. --- Trajan's Column. --- Trajan. --- Vitellius. --- William Makepeace Thackeray. --- Writing. --- cultuurgeschiedenis
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