Gillray exhibition… Ashmolean Museum… chance to explore the latest scholarship…satirical print geek overload! Be there and be square.
http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/james-gillray200-caricaturist-without-conscience
James Gillray@200: Caricaturist without a Conscience?
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford & New College, Oxford present:
A one-day symposium to be held at the Ashmolean Museum
Saturday 28 March 2015
CFP deadline: 15 November 2014
Programme will be announced: 21 November 2014
James Gillray’s reputation in the two centuries since his death has been as varied and layered as his prints. Trained at the Royal Academy, he failed at reproductive printmaking, yet became, according to the late-eighteenth-century Weimar journal London und Paris, one of the greatest European artists of the era. Napoleon, from his exile on St Helena, allegedly remarked that Gillray’s prints did more to run him out of power than all the armies of Europe. In England, patriots had hired him to propagandize against the French and touted him as a great national voice, but he was an unreliable gun-for-hire. At a large public banquet, during the heat of…
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