Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century, by Linda Nochlin

Book of the week: Lennard J. Davis lauds a study of portrayals of the poor as a fitting memorial to its author

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April 5, 2018
Last updated
April 5, 2018
Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!
For Linda Nochlin, Géricault’s Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!, creates ‘an intense and intensely moving synecdoche of lost feeling and humanity’, within the social uncaringness of 1820s London

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Print headline: Wretched, down and drawn

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