Todd Porterfield is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Art History at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 (1998), and co-author of Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David (2006).
'As a collection of essays by multiple authors, The Effloresence of Caricature necessarily has it limitations. But that is to quibble. The best essays will provoke new studies that will explore further the international and interdisciplinary context in which caricature worked and must be studied.' Print Quarterly 'All the essays gathered here offer valuable insights into their chosen topics.' H-France