San Antonio College Library

"In 'The art of caricature' Edward Lucie-Smith traces the history of visual satire from its origins in classical wall paintings and ceremonial masks to its modern day appearance in newspapers and magazines. He discusses the early attempts at moral satire in church carvings of the Middle Ages, the crucial alliance of caricature and the press in the Renaissance, and the refinement of caricature as a political weapon in the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Discusses the history of engraving, with examples from Durer and his successors, and comments on how such prints have been used as social satire and to expose human folly. -- Dust jacket.

"Caricatures, monsters, puppets and grotesque figures populate the pages of this book, which is illustrated with over 400 reproductions of key works by Picasso drawn from public and private collections worldwide: paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and prints. More than 100 of the works reproduced are previously unpublished. With a series of interpretative essays by an international cast of distinguished Picasso scholars, the book is essential...

"A lavishly illustrated, witty, and learned look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky knows just how incendiary--and transformative--cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever sketched--by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honore Daumier,...