{"id":21604,"date":"2018-12-28T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?page_id=21604"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T21:56:50","slug":"about-genre-and-humor-prints","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/about-genre-and-humor-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"About Genre and Humor Prints"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by George Glazer and Helen Glazer \u00a9 2002-2018<\/p>\n

Genre, caricature, humorous and satirical prints are historical documents of the social values of the times in which they were made. Genre prints sometimes show how people actually lived at the time, while others depict an idealized view of life that reveal about how people of the era wished to see themselves. Political and social satires serve as records of issues that aroused passions, caused controversy or simply made people laugh. The heyday of both types of prints in England, France and the U.S. was from about 1760 to 1850.<\/p>\n

The term \"genre\" on our site covers a broad range of art, from sentimental to cynical, from melodramatic to mocking. The Library of Congress'\u00a0Thesaurus of Graphic Materials II<\/strong>\u00a0defines genre works as, \"Scenes or incidents of everyday life, such as domestic interiors or rural and village scenes; tableaux; chiefly pre-1900.\" These pictures have their roots in Dutch 17th century paintings of daily life and were very popular during the 18th and 19th centuries. Genre prints may illustrate a story or poem, although sometimes they are stand-alone works where the narrative aspect is implied.<\/p>\n

View our current inventory: Genre<\/a> and Satire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"The Connoisseur\" shows an art lover dressed in framed pictures.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Martin's Act, the first animal-rights law, is satirized in this 1822 print.<\/p><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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On our site, we classify prints as genre prints if they are pre-1900* and fall into one of these categories:<\/p>\n