Honoré Daumier and the French 19th Century
When:
Sunday, March 15
Where:
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Time:
11:00 a.m.
During the 19th century, Honoré Daumier’s long career paralleled the growth of lithography as a persuasive
medium. Today he is best known for his satire of Citizen-King Louis-Philippe’s increasingly authoritarian rule,
especially the political caricatures in the controversial journal Le Charivari. Yet over the course of five decades,
from the 1830s to the 1870s, Daumier turned his comic insight to all aspects of French society, from fellow
artists to women intellectuals to bourgeois fathers and finally the Franco-German War of 1870.
Clare Rogan, Curator of the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, will discuss a selection of prints by
Daumier.
Maximum number: 16 people – Please, call or e-mail Larry to make your reservation. The program will be
presented in English. Fee: $10.00.
After the program, please join us for lunch at Lan Chi’s Vietnamese restaurant.
Clare Rogan, Ph.D., 2005, Brown University, History of Art and Architecture, is Curator of the Davison Art Center. She teaches
courses on the history of photography, history of prints, and museum studies. She curated the traveling exhibition, Philip Trager: A
Retrospective (2006), and the exhibition, Keiji Shinohara: Color Harmony(2007). Additional exhibitions have ranged from the
photographs of Barbara Morgan to contemporary etching, from chiaroscuro prints to 18th century British and Italian caricature. She
has published on early lithography, and on the representation of the lesbian in German art and visual culture.