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cultural studies
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eighteenth-century art history
eighteenth-century France
eighteenth-century French art history
Eighteenth-Century Studies
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French art
French art history
French studies
graphic satire
nineteenth-century art history
Nineteenth-century France
nineteenth-century French art history
nineteenth-century studies
Open Access
print history
Romance studies
satirical image
starving artist
studio arts
the starving artist
Visual Culture
visual studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781644533635
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of satirical images that satirized the Paris art world. By examining many of these images, which have never before been studied or published, this book provides a new social history of the status of the artist, revealing the ways in which the starving artist trope was used to protest the emergence of an early capitalist art market and to distinguish artists and their work from an increasingly commercial world. During this period, a series of political revolutions brought the possibility of radical change in the French art world. Parisian artists struggled to keep pace with the emergence of modern financial speculative capitalism, transitioning away from an art system dominated by guild and corporate interest. We have neglected the complaints visual artists made about these changes, expressed in the medium most accessible to them: the graphic image. In examining this imagery for the first time, Inglorious Artists reveals that the emergence of our modern conception of the artist is far more conflicted than has been considered.
This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition.
This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition.
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.
