Daumier
Yale University Press
Published on 11. March 2000
Book
Hardback
600 pages
978-0-300-08359-0 (ISBN)
Description
Honori-Victorin Daumier was a masterfully versatile artist, creating powerful works in lithography, pen and ink, sculpture, watercolor, and oil. This beautiful book explores the astonishing breadth of his achievement. Written by eminent figures in the artworld, the book illuminates Daumier's success as a political and social satirist, showing how he identified with the dispossessed, the poor, and the oppressed. The authors point out that lithography was Daumier's weapon in humorous attacks on patronage (Gargantua) and in stark exposures of injustice (Rue Transnonain), while his paintings and drawings recorded scenes of emigration (The Fugitives), and public transport (The Third-Class Carriage). Daumier's sculpture parodied political abuses (Ratapoil) and caricatured pompous and self-important public figures (The Celebrites series from La Caricature and Le Charivari), and his watercolours captured his disdain for lawyers and judges (The Speech for the Defence) and his empathy for the poor (The Soup). With lavish reproductions, each accompanied by apparatus, commentary, and provenance, the book is a vivid testimony of Daumier's ongoing legacy.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Daumier's work on view at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from 11 June to 6 September 1999, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, from 5 October 1999 to 3 January 2000, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., from 19 February to 14 May 2000.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Daumier's work on view at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from 11 June to 6 September 1999, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, from 5 October 1999 to 3 January 2000, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., from 19 February to 14 May 2000.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
359 b&w illustrations, 246 colour plates
Dimensions
Height: 310 mm
Width: 240 mm
Weight
3240 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-08359-0 (9780300083590)
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Persons
Henri Loyrette is director of the Musie d'Orsay. Michael Pantazzi is curator of European and American Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Sigolhne Le Men is professor of contemporary art history and director of the art history department at the Universiti de Paris-X, Nanterre. Idouard Papet is curator and Dominique Lobstein is charge d'etudes documentaires at the Musie d'Orsay. Michel Melot is conservateur giniral des bibliothhques at the Ministhre de la Culture et de la Communication, Direction du Patrimoine, France, and author of The Impressonist Print (ISBN 0 300 06792 5, #50.00), also published by Yale University Press.
Author
Curator of European and American Art, National Gallery of Canada