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Panelists examine censorship in the current art world and compare it to censorship that affected and fueled the art of Honoré Daumier in the 1830s. Connie Wolf, director of the Cantor Arts Center, moderates the discussion. Panelists include Richard Meyer, Professor of Art and Art History, Dan Edelstein, Associate Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of History, and Brendan O'Byrne, executive editor of The Stanford Daily.
When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835 explores the art that ignited a 19th-century battle over politics and freedom of the press. The weekly Paris journal La Caricature, founded in 1830 shortly after Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850) took the French throne, quickly became the King’s worst enemy in his fight for popular approval. It published hundreds of lithographs by Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) and other artists that thoroughly ridiculed the July Monarchy, as Louis-Philippe’s reign was known. See how, in the approximately 50 prints on view, La Caricature used social satire, visual puns, and physical caricature to mock the July Monarchy’s ministers, their censorship of the press, and the King’s physical appearance.
Open Wed-Sun 11am - 5pm, Thursdays until 8pm; admission is free. CLOSED MONDAY AND TUESDAY.