Allegorical Satires from the Late Second Empire

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Monday October 2

10:00 AM  –  11:00 AM

Maxime Valsamas is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation is titled: “Sustaining the Republic: The Power of Political Prints by Honoré Daumier, Édouard Manet, André Gill, and Alfred Le Petit”. He received his M. A. from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, with a thesis on Honoré Daumier’s allegorical satires from the late Second Empire.

Caricatures of the late Second Empire and early Third Republic differ greatly from the ones Toulouse-Lautrec produced of the entertainment world in Fin-de-siècle Paris. At a time when laws against the press still interfered with the publication of illustrated satirical journals, it was vital for artists to adopt political allegories as a form of caricatural representation. This talk will focus primarily on Honoré Daumier’s use of allegorical satires to comment on French politics and crises on the European continent in the late 1860s and 1870s. Free, advance reservations required.

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