Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
Examples of Francisco Goya's nightmarish, antichurch and anti-aristocracy series of etchings "Los Caprichos" are on display, as well as beautifully drawn political cartoons by the Englishman James Gillray and the Frenchman Honor Daumier. A lithograph by Edouard Manet shows soldiers firing on Paris Communards. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Book Review: City of Laughter Jan 2, 2007
The humor on display in the prints of James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Cruikshank the big three in Gatrell's pantheon was often coarse, bawdy, scatological and obscene. Private parts were on graphic display. (International Herald Tribune)
* Eighteeth-century Londoners laughed last and hardest Dec 31, 2006
The humor on display in the prints of James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Cruik-shank X the big three in Gatrell's pantheon X was often coarse, bawdy, scatological and obscene. Private parts were on graphic display. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Who's giggling at the back? Feb 12, 2006
He may have lampooned Joseph Beuys's portentousness, but only to the extent of gluing some of The Master's multiples to an economic graph, which hardly makes him James Gillray. As for his much-vaunted political satires they seem awfully vague to me, which is surely a fatal flaw. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
