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Creator:
Loxton, Alice
Title(s):
Uproar! : satire, scandal & printmakers in Georgian London / Alice Loxton.
Additional Title(s):
Uproar! satire, scandal and printmakers in Georgian London
Published/Created:
London : Icon Books, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
xii, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
NE628.2 .L69 2023 (LC)
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royay Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, 'UPROAR!' follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devenonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day."--Bookjacket.
Subject Terms:
Art and society -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
Art and society.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764–1811.
England -- London.
Gillray, James, 1756–1815.
London (England) -- History -- 18th century.
London (England) -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827.
Satire, English -- History and criticism.
Satirists, English.
Form/Genre:
History.
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