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Charles Philipon
La Caricature, 1830-1835

Lithographies complètes

An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs

Alan Wofsky
Fine Arts
San Francisco, CA

La Caricature was the 19th Century equivalent and the precursor of Charlie Hebdo. The editor Charles Philipon employed the major satirical artists of the mid-19th Century notably Daumier, Grandville, E. Forest, Charlet, Bellangé , Traviès, Raffet and Gavarni. It appeared for five years, between 1830-1835.

The main subjects of the caricatures were Louis-Philippe and his entourage of July Monarchy politicians.

2017, 536 pgs, approximately 500, color & b/w illus.

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VIVE LES SATIRISTES!
French Caricature During the Reign of Louis Philippe
1830 - 1848

Josephine Lea Iselin
The Grolier Club
New York City

A fascinating overview of the Golden Age of social and political satire in 19th-century France, focusing on the role of controversial and wildly popular journals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, and the great illustrators - Daumier, Grandville, and others.

2017, 136 pgs., 84 color & b/w illus.

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French Caricature and the
French Revolution 1789 - 1799

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
University of California, Los Angeles

During the 1790s political caricature, whether funny or vicious, was constantly exploited by the various factions pitted against each other. All kinds of prints could be purchased at printshops ...

1988, 280 pgs., Over 300 color & b/w illus.

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Grandville: Das Gesamte Werk
Volumes 1 and 2

Introduction by Sello Gottfried

1969, Volume 1: 800 pgs, Volume 2: 832 pgs, 1,600 b/w illus.,

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Caricature and French
Political Culture 1830 - 1848:
Charles Philipon and the Illustrated Press

by David Kerr

Philipon was the founder of the satirical illustrated press in France. With the newspapers he owned and directed La Caricature and Le Charivari, he led an unprecedentedly coherent and vitriolic campaign of disrespect against King Louis-Philippe and his regime.

2000, 242 pgs., 56 b/w illus.

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Censorship and the control of print in England and France 1600 - 1910

by Robin Myers and Michael Harris

In this collection of essays, leading scholars investigate the interaction between authors, publishers, booksellers, readers and regulatory bodies in England and France across three centuries, and show the key role that the book trade — resisting or adapting to external pressures — has played in defining what is permissible to publish.

1992, 154 pgs,, 7 b/w illus.

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A Human Comedy:
Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris

by Judith Wechsler

This book is about the Parisians' characteristic preoccupation with physical clues to class, profession, character and circumstances, especially in the period 1830 to 1870, and how these are reflected in caricature, mime, and literature.

1998, 208 pgs., 161 b/w illus.

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The Court of Flora
Les Fleurs Animées
The Engraved Illustrations of
J.J. Grandville

Introduction by Peter A. Wick

The Court of Flora (Les Fleurs Animées) was the last of Grandville's illustrated books, published posthumously the year of the artist's death in 1847 ... The 52 color plates in this volume reproduce the original steel engravings of Grandville's illustrations.

1981, 123 pgs., 52 color illus.

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The Art of the July Monarchy:
France 1830-1848

Museum of Art and Archeology,
University of Missouri-Columbia

In the years between 1830 and 1848, the period known as the July Monarchy, French art underwent the major transformation from romanticism to realism ... chapters considering history painting, landscape painting, portraiture, caricature, book illustration, and the advent of realism.

1990, 313 pgs., 273 color & b/w illus.

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Censorship of Political Caricature
in Nineteenth-Century France

by Robert Justin Goldstein

1989, 293 pgs., 127 b/w illus.

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The Pear:
French Graphic Arts
in the Golden Age
of Caricature

by Elise K. Kenney
& John M. Merriman
Mount Holyoke College

1991, 120 pgs
82 b/w illus.

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The Charged Image
French Lithographic
Caricature
1816 - 1848

by Beatrice Farwell
Santa Barbara
Museum of Art

1989, 188 pgs
211 color & b/w illus.

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Public and Private
Lives of Animals

Illustrated by
J.J. Grandville

1977 English Edition
(first published
in France in 1842)
312 pgs, b/w illus.

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