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Daumier By Sarah Symmons

Description: Normal 0 You're looking at a Beautiful art book of French master artist and caricaturist "Daumier" by Sarah Symmons. (2004) In near-mint condition book (minor scuffing at the bottom edge of hardcover, where it was on a bookshelf, keeps it from being perfect (see photos), but a dust jacket in mint condition to wrap around it. Synopsis: Ranked alongside Ingres by Baudelaire as the finest draughtsman in Paris and matched as a political caricaturist in the nineteenth century only by Goya, Honoré Daumier worked for opposition newspapers throughout the Second Empire, one of the most corrupt and flamboyant periods in French history. He won fame, notoriety, and so a prison sentence, for his prodigious output of caricatures of prominent politicians and his relentless lampooning of the hypocrisy and pretentions of contemporary Parisian moeurs. Sarah Symmons both examines Daumier’s role as a professional newspaper artist and explores his more personal body of work, which remained largely unknown during his lifetime. Investigating his series of watercolours and oils of the ordinary citizens of Paris, of the railway travellers, mounte-banks and washerwomen who also people his caricatures, she finds a tragic monumentality far removed from the journalistic cynicism of much of his newspaper work. This quality they share with his more ambitious studies of the dispossessed, of fugitives and emigrants, and of the heroically absurd wanderings of Don Quixote. Often choosing to paint the simple everyday life he saw around him, Daumier was a model example of le peintre de la vie moderne, while his use of pictorial understatement and his painstaking search for absolute simplicity gave many of his pictures an experimental, ‘unfinished’ quality, which discouraged official recognition, but led to such artists as Picasso, Steinlen and Paul Klee to study his work closely during their formative years. Sarah Symmons has produced a comprehensive analysis of Daumier’s career as a painter, sculptor and caricaturist, documenting his striving for the stark and truthful simplicity which gives his finest work an air of universality and permanence, while reflecting the anxieties and insecurity of his own life and times. I got this from an estate sale where the collector kept all of his library in excellent condition. I bought his entire Art Book collection because it was in such pristine shape, so check out the other Art Volumes that I'll be posting on Ebay this week. Class up your library and expand your artistic appreciation with these beautiful art collections. I will combine shipping if you purchase multiple items. Please let me know after you buy the first one if you're adding to your order. I have 100% positive feedback for honest descriptions, secure packing, and fast shipping. Thanks for looking!

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Title: Daumier

Book Title: Daumier

Number of Pages: 128 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Chaucer Press

Publication Year: 2004

Item Height: 2.1 in

Topic: Individual Artists / General, General, European, History / General

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Art

Item Weight: 36.4 Oz

Author: Sarah Symmons

Item Length: 11 in

Item Width: 9 in

Format: Hardcover

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