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Kathryn Desplanque's Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850 marks a new stage in our understanding not just of caricature, but also of art market studies and even of modern art. Immensely readable and profusely illustrated, her study takes a broad view of the economic and political changes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that affected the very definition of an artist. Through her insight into their work, we understand how the artists themselves attempted to navigate the new social and economic currents that precipitated modern definitions of the artist as an outcast from society, starving and impoverished, but nonetheless an independent and prophetic genius.--Patricia Mainardi, CUNY Graduate Center (12/12/2024 12:00:00 AM)

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Kathryn Desplanque is an assistant professor of eighteenth- and nineteenth-Century European art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European visual culture, particularly French and English imagery. She has authored numerous book chapters and has published articles in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, Biblio 17: Voyages, rencontres, Échanges au XVIIe siÈcle, and The Art Bulletin. Her current book project, Papermania, charts the growing popularity of scrap sheets and scrapbooking across France, England, and North America during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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