The Indignant Eye : The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso / Ralph E. Shikes

Identifier:REF.PM.2130

Dimensions:xxviii, 439 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Copyright dates:1969

Subjects: caricatures, political art, prints

Description:"... certain artists have become spiritually and artistically involved in man's seemingly endless quest for social justice. They have use the most effective weapon at their command - their art - to needle the Establishment, duel with oppressive governments, satirize corrupt or indifferent churches, strip bare the foul futility of war, attack exploitation, uncover the bleak existence of the poor, and in general to make visual comment on human folly in its infinite variables... This book focuses on more than 150 such artists and their work, reproducing prints and drawings from Western Europe, the United States, and Mexico on subjects of social comment and criticism that have been executed over the past five centuries - roughly the span of printmaking." -- Introduction Beacon Paperback 543 Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- The Artist Against the Church Establishment : The Sixteenth Century -- The Artist, The Peasant, and War : The Seventeenth Century -- Interlude -- The English Artist as Social or Political Critic : From Hogarth to Cruikshank -- Goya -- The French Revolution and the Restoration : Prologue to the Nineteenth Century -- Daumier and His Contemporaries : France, 1830-71 -- France and Belgium After the Commune : From Pissarro to Rouault -- Germany After 1871 : Kollwitz, Beckman, Grosz, Dix -- The United States Since 1870 -- Protest Art in Mexico -- Epilogue : Social Protest in Art Today -- Notes and Bibliography -- Index