“It’s a kind of shooting-myself-in-the-foot image of the artist,” Desplanque says. One of exactly 530 collected by UNC-Chapel Hill art historian Kathryn Desplanque. This is a 19 th-century French political cartoon. In the background, middle-class Frenchmen cheer on the man behind the mortar, excited to see his artistic creations in action. They have been stuffed with art prints and demons, which spill forth from the barrels. The other is the Institut de France, where the country’s greatest living cultural, political, and artistic minds reside.īut these cannons are not filled with gun powder. One is the French Panthéon - a mausoleum in Paris that houses the remains of distinguished citizens, including the writer Voltaire, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Louis Braille, inventor of the reading and writing system with his surname. A one-shoed man wearing a slouchy hat and oversized shirt holds a match toward the wicks of a large black cannon aimed at two buildings.
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