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Exhibition: Daumier 1808-1879: Visions Of Paris
The French artist Honore Daumier may have been the artisan outsider in the elite art world of the mid-19th century. But, as a new exhibition of his work shows, he was not only a brilliant painter of social and political themes but a figure whose work influenced future radical practice, says CHRISTINE LINDEY
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Daumier 1808-1879: Visions Of Paris
Royal Academy London WC1
Honore Daumier (1808-1879) consistently supported the left's anti-clericalist, anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist struggles for democracy and social justice.
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