📗 Libro en inglés MAXS WORLD OF SANDWICHES

A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it by one of the UK s most exciting young historians Alice Loxton is the star of her generation the next big thing in history DAN SNOW Vivid pacey and endlessly engaging this brilliant debut brings the late Georgian period dazzlingly to life Irresistible stuff TRACY BORMANLondon 1772 a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools Within a few years James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly turning satire into an artform taking on the British establishment and forever changing the way we view power Set against a backdrop of royal madness political intrigue the birth of modern celebrity French revolution American independence and the Napoleonic Wars UPROAR follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power from the Prince Regent to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor sharp wit as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day Alice Loxton s writing fizzes with energy on every page an