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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Art was illustrative long before it was holy -or wholly self-motivated. The prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux illustrated early man’s observations of the world around him. The devotional art of the Renais- sance that fill the world’s great museums was produced at the behest of patrons who dictated content if not style. Concurrently. the earliest caricatures by Agostino and Annibale Carracci which influenced the entire art of illustrative “charged portraits were considered progressive self-motivated works-respites from the restrictions imposed by patrons. The master satiric il- lustrators of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including James Gillray Thomas Rowlandson Honor? Daumier and Thom- as Nast were not slaves to the prelate or monarch but free-thinking critics of them pictorially commenting on and illustrat- ing their respective epochs. Not until the late nineteenth century with the advent of Impressionism (which occurs around the same time that photography stole much of the thunder away from academic painting). did art begin to veer from the constraints (MP)