The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures
Subtitle: drawing satire in eighteenth-century Paris
By: edited by Colin Jones, Juliet Carey and Emily Richardson
Series: SVEC -- 2012:06; SVEC -- 2012:06.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780729410441
Subjects: Pictorial French wit and humor; History and criticism
Description: A comprehensive study of the 'Livre' in which scholars investigate the motivations and operations behind the making of the book, and the many facets of Parisian life that it reveals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Livre de caricatures and the Saint-Aubins. Archaeology and materiality / Colin Jones and Emily Richardson ; Decoding the Livre de caricatures / John Rogister ; The Saint-Aubins sketching for fun and profit / Kim de Beaumont; title: 2. Historical perspectives. War, diplomacy and faction / John Shovlin ; Politics and religion / Julian Swann ; Gloire, subversively / Valerie Mainz ; Madame de Pompadour / Humphrey Wine; title: 3. Sites of culture. Theatrical life / Mark Ledbury ; Musical culture / James H. Johnson ; Fashioning the feminine / Aileen Ribeiro ;  Costume books and fashion plates / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell ; The king and his embroiderer / Juliet Carey ; Connoisseurship: art and antiquities / Charlotte Guichard ; Vases and satire / Perrin Stein; title: 4. Contexts. The precariousness of things / Richard Taws ; Saint-Aubin's jokes and their relation to ... / Katie Scott.