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Names: Desplanque, Kathryn, author.
Title: Inglorious artists : art-world satire and the emergence of a capitalist art market in Paris, 1750–1850 / Kathryn Desplanque.
Description: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2025. | Outgrowth of the author’s thesis (doctoral)—Duke University, 2017, under the title: Art, commerce, and caricature : satirical images of artistic life in Paris, 1750–1850. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: The artiste libre in the ancien régime — Revolutionary instabilities of liberty and autonomy — The starving artist in the salon system — The apotheosis of Bohemia.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024050409 | ISBN 9781644533635 (paperback) | ISBN 9781644533642 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781644533659 (epub) | ISBN 9781644533666 (PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Artists—France—Paris—Caricatures and cartoons. | Art—Economic aspects—France—Paris—Caricatures and cartoons. | Artists—France—Paris— Social conditions—18th century. | Artists—France—Paris—Social conditions—19th century. | Art and society—France—History—18th century. | Art and society—France—History—19th century.
Classification: LCC NC1493 .D47 2025 | DDC 709.44/36109033—dc23/eng/20250208
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024050409
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