’Body Politics: Charles Brandoin’s France England, 1772’

Grandjouan, Kate (2015) ’Body Politics: Charles Brandoin’s France England, 1772’. Zbornik Matice Srpske Za Likovne Umetnosti, Oct (43). pp. 65-80.

Abstract

The article analyses a satirical print that was published in London by a Swiss artist, Charles Brandoin (1733–1796). Unusually, the design articulates ideas of national difference via an iconography of food and drink. A close reading of contemporary visual and textual sources relating to food, diet and national character are used to unravel the print’s satirical meanings and to highlight an aspect of the design that has been lost in contemporary discussions: that this double national satire contrasts the French cook as poisoner, with the English cook as savage.

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