Author : Robert L Patten Year of publication: 1996 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 2: 1835- 1878
ILLUSTRATED
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S LIFE, TIMES AND ART
Volume 2: 1835-1878
By Robert L. Patten
ILLUSTRATED
Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey.
ISBN 0-8135-1813-X (v.2)
1996
Manufactured in USA
Ex Belmont University Library with 1 stamp on introductory page and 1 stamp on the back page
Very good condition
Yellow hardback in good order,
Book is tightly bound, no rips, tears or spotting.
24cms x 16cms
656 pages include Index, Index of Works, Bibliography,
Page Notes and Geneology
Post and Package included
Robert Patten provides the first documentary biography of Cruikshank. In this second volume of a two-volume work, which covers the artist's pictures of everyday London, The Tower, Jack Sheppard and the anti-drunkenness Tempreance Movement, Patten demonstrates the ways that Cruikshank was, as his contemporaries frequently declared, the Hogarth ot the nineteenth century.
In the conclusion to the biography of the caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank, Robert Patten narrates the second half of the artist's long career. It is an examination of Cruikshank's cooperations with some of the writers who are known as remakers of British fiction, particularly Harrison Ainsworth, Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Patten also examines Cruikshank's illustrated periodicals, especially the Comic Almernack, which preceded Punch, and which contains an invaluable record of three decades of London life in the artist's hundreds of etchings. Beginning in 1847, Cruikshank became a leading advocate of Temperance, producing two dramatic series of prints, a gigantic oil painting, and many other forms of propaganda.
Patten provides the fullest account ever of Cruikshank's many friendships and contextualises his art, showing how the subjects, mediums, treatments, publishers and audiences affected the artist's productions. He is especially good at elucidating Dickens' very public quarrel with Cruikshank, a quarrel that severed twenty years of friendship. The artist's friendship with John Ruskin, who became for a time Cruikshank's patron and champion, is also illuminated by Patten.
Cruikshank's later years were not successful either artistically or financially. He was bedevilled by economic crisis, inadequate commissions, and the upkeep of two households – one with his second wife and the other with his mistress and ten children.
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