Author : Robert L Patten Year of publication: 1992 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :Yes Condition: Very Good Category: Art and culture Cost of book: £20 (includes P+P) Price negotiable: No
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S LIFE, TIMES AND ART Volume 1: 1792 – 1835 ILLUSTRATED GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S LIFE, TIMES AND ART Volume 1: 1792 – 1835 By Robert L. Patten Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey. ISBN 0-8135-1813-X (v.1) 1992 Manufactured in USA Ex Osceola County Library System with 4 stamps on pages 1 and2 and 3 stamps on back page Very good condition Illustrated dustcover and yellow hardback all in good order. Book is tightly bound, no rips, tears or spotting. 24cms x 16cms 495 pages include Index, Page Notes and Geneologies Post and Package included Robert Patten provides the first documentary biography of Cruikshank. In this first volume of a two-volume work, which covers the artist's Regency caricatures and early book illustrations, Patten demonstrates the ways that Cruikshank was, as his contemporaries frequently declared, the Hogarth ot the nineteenth century. Having reviewed over 8,500 unpublished letters and most of Cruikshank's 12,000 or more printed images, Patten gives a thorough and reliable account of the artist's career. The etchings and wood-engravings of George Cruikshank (1792-1878) recorded, commented on, and satirized his times to such an extent that they have been frequently used to represent the age. Cruikshank, a popular artist in the propaganda war against Napoleon, an ardent campaigner for Reform and Temperance, and the foremost illustrator of such classics as Grimms' Fairy Tales, Scott's novels, and Dickens's Oliver Twist, is known for his versatility, imagination, humor, and incisive images. His long life, marked by a ceaseless struggle to win recognition for his art, intersected with the lives of many of Britain's important political, social, and cultural leaders.
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