Art Against Censorship
Duncan-O'Neill, Erin
The artist Honoré Daumier (1808-79) gained early notoriety after being jailed for a notorious caricature of King Louis-Philippe. He continued to test the electric fence of shifting censorship laws throughout his career, using experimental portrait strategies and subversive reinterpretations of seventeenth-century literature. This book examines Daumier's deep and abiding engagement with the authors Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, and Miguel de Ce...
