Exhibition // The Gout and the Guillotine: The Satirical Imagination in Britain 1790-1799
Date and Time
Monday, March 14, 2022
This event occurred in the past
- Monday, March 14, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Friday, April 1, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Monday, May 2, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Friday, May 20, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location
Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall, 200, Humanities Center Gallery
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
Free
Details
This exhibition, centered principally on the work of James Gillray (1756-1815), explores how the grotesque imagination of 18th century satirists interrogated the apparently distinct realms of physical pain and revolutionary politics. Caricatures of the diametrically opposed political thinkers Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine are presented alongside images of that event about which they most fervently disagreed: the French Revolution and its aftermath. And hovering above it all is Gillray’s horrific representation of the body in pain: “The Gout."
On View: March 14 through May 20, 2022
Humanities Center Gallery
Image credit: James Gillray, The Gout, 1799, etching and aquatint with hand-coloring,. Purchased with funds provided by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, PC202.01.
