A new book examines graphic satire and paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.
-Editor
Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire
by Amanda Lahikainen
Hardback
August 2022 • ISBN 9781644532690 • $120.00
Paperback
August 2022 • ISBN 9781644532683 • $34.95
* E-Book Available
Series
Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic satire grew in visual risk-taking, while paper money became a more standard carrier of financial value, courting controversy as a medium, moral problem, and factor in inflation. Through analysis of satirical prints, as well as case studies of monetary satires beyond London, this book demonstrates several key ways that cultures attach value to printed paper, accepting it as social reality and institutional fact. Thus, satirical banknotes were objects that broke down the distinction between paper money and graphic satire ?altogether.
About the Author
Amanda Lahikainen is the executive director of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine. Prior to joining OMAA, she served as an associate professor of art history and chairperson of the art department at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Found via News & Notes from the Society of Paper Money Collectors (Volume VII, Number 40, March 22, 2022).
-Editor
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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire (Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture)
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