Gallery Talk // The Gout and the Guillotine: The Satirical Imagination in Britain 1790-1799
Date and Time
Monday, March 21, 2022
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- Monday, March 21, 2022 from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Location
Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall, 200, Humanities Center Gallery
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
Free
Details
Join us for a brief presentation by curators Derrick Cartwright, PhD, and Brian R. Clack, PhD. The gallery will be open for an hour following the presentation.
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.
