Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

Amanda Lahikainen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2022
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
9781644532683 (ISBN)

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Examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between these two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time.

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire altogether.

AMANDA LAHIKAINEN is the executive director of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine. Prior to joining OMAA, she served as an associate professor of art history and chairperson of the art department at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction                            The Inflation of Georgian Graphic Satire

Chapter One                            Money, Fact, and Value
Chapter Two                           Crisis
Chapter Three                         Subjectivity and Trust
Chapter Four                           Imitation and Immateriality
Chapter Five                           Materiality
Chapter Six                             The Deflation of Georgian Graphic Satire
Epilogue                                  Beyond Britain

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	17 color images, 2 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	4 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9781644532683 / 9781644532683
Zustand	Neuware