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Thursday, May 2, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
BAMPFA
Five Tables of Amusing Moral Critique
Regarding satire, the George Bernard Shaw quote is here apropos: If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. Three unkilled printmaking exemplars whose works from the collection are on view this month: the late-nineteenth-century French newspaper satirist Honoré Daumier, who urbanely pokes fun at everything from foreign policy to Paris fashion; the sardonic Spanish court artist Francisco Goya, who fiercely critiques the corruption of those with power and the ignorance of those with none; and the bristling eighteenth-century English moralist William Hogarth, whose The Rake’s Progress merges entertainment and outrage in equal parts. And much more!