Honoré Daumier, Vue prise dans un quartier en démolition (View of a neighborhood under demolition) 1854.
Art Historians consider the destruction and reconstruction of Paris by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Napoleon III during the mid-19th century as the rupture that thrust visual culture into the modern era and enabled a discourse on modernity. What has been overlooked is the more immediate satirical discourse of…
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