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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Some light wear on dustcover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Ronald Searle along with Andre Francois and Saul Steinberg is internationally acknowledged as being one of the great graphic satirists of our time. He is also one of the most original draughtsmen to have emerged this century and he has had a considerable influence on pictorial humour. This splendidly witty album the first substantial study of Searle draws on his work in the last ten years (most of it previously unpublished) to reveal just how varied and subtle is his art. Ronald Searle’s articulate and very personal way of expressing himself in line brought him early fame and whilst still in his twenties he was acclaimed as having ‘effected a one-man revolution in the world of visual humour’. This prodigy of the 1950s did not burn out as rapidly as he rose for today forty-three years after his first appearance in print at the age of fifteen he has successfully extended his activities to include film animation printmaking painting and three-dimensional work in clay. But he works always with wit never losing sight of his main purpose to caricature. Whether he likes it or not Searle’s work has slid under the jealously-guarded fence of the ‘fine arts’ but always with a laugh however wry. Two experts (and friends) examine the man and his work: Professor Henning Bock’s introduction is based on some years of professional and personal acquaintance; and Pierre Dehaye Director of the French Mint with whom Searle has realized a number of projects examines the humorist from another angle. In addition an illustrated chapter of unexpectedly revealing biographical notes helps to fill in the picture. For the record Searle’s basic work from 1939 is extensively documented. (MP)