Inglorious Artists
Art World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850
Series: Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Delaware Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781644533635
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages266 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 color images and 105 b-w images, 13 tables 700
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Chapter One: The Artiste Libre in the Ancien RÉgime
Chapter Two: Revolutionary Instabilities of Liberty and Autonomy
Chapter Three: The Starving Artist in the Salon System
Chapter Four: The Apotheosis of Bohemia
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
