https://doi.org/10.21697/an.12123
The article is devoted to the presence of iconoclastic themes in 19th-century French visual culture, focusing primarily on the examples of narrative graphics that appear on the bor- der between comics and press illustration (e.g. by Charles Amédée de Noé and Gustave Doré) and their connections with the so- called “fumism” – an attitude of distance from reality, expressed in incessant jokes and hoaxes, also aimed at the art system that was developing at that time. The artistic activity of fumists took place in the 1880s and 1890s, finding its full expression in the activities of the Chat Noir cabaret, the Hydropats club, and above all in the work of the proto-Dadaist movement of the The Incoherents (Les Arts incohérents), active in the years 1882–1896 and anticipating such artistic phenomena as ready-made, happening, or abstract art. By emphasizing the role of a sense of humor in the process of forming the 20th-century avant-garde, the author of the text also points to the early work of Marcel Duchamp as a natural bridge between the area of car- toon satire and gallery art.
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