18th Century in English Caricature

18th Century in English Caricature

The Eighteenth Century in English CaricatureThe word Caricature does not lend itself easily to precise definition. Etymologically...
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Author: Brinton, Selwyn,1859-1940
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18th Century in English Caricature

18th Century in English Caricature

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18th Century in English Caricature

$17.85 $8.92
Author: Brinton, Selwyn,1859-1940
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature

The word Caricature does not lend itself easily to precise definition. Etymologically it connects itself with the Italian caricare, to load or charge, thus corresponding precisely in derivation with its French equivalent Charge; andsave a yet earlier reference in Sir Thomas Browneit first appears, as far as I am aware, in that phrase of No. 537 of the Spectator, "Those burlesque pictures which the Italians call caracaturas." Putting the dry bones of etymology from our thought the essence, the life-blood of the thing itself, is surely thisthe human creature's amusement with itself and its environment, and its expression of that amusement through the medium of the plastic arts. So that our caracatura, our[Pg 2] burlesque picture of life, stands on the same basis as comedy or satire, is, in fact, but comedy or satire finding its outlet in another form of expression. And this is so true that wherever we find brilliant or trenchant satire of life there we may be sure, too, that caricature is not far absent. Pauson's grotesques are the correlative of the Comedies of Aristophanes; and when the development of both is not correlative, not simultaneous, it is surely because one or other has been checked by political or social conditions, which have been inherently antagonistic to its growth. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 29647
Author: Brinton, Selwyn
Release Date: Aug 9, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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