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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Caricatures have been amusing shocking and informing a wide and varied public for the last 300 years; yet this is the first fully illustrated book devoted to the history of this genuinely popular art. All the famous names are here: Gillray Cruikshank Daumier Gill Nast Spy Beerbohm Sem Low Levine seen in the context of their predecessors peers and successors. Equally im- portant Masters of Caricature rescues many artists from undeserved obscurity as well as revealing the little-known talent for caricature of people like Landseer Thackeray Tissot Caruso and Klee whose fame rests on more ‘serious’ work. A total of 243 international caricaturists are discussed in the form of individual biographies illustrated with one or more examples of their work provid- ing a much-needed source of visual as well as textual information. The book is introduced by the art critic William Feaver who also provides a commentary placing each generation of caricatur- ists in its historical context Apart from its importance as a reference book Masters of Caricature is also by the very nature of its subject and the lively personalities it portrays an entertainment in its own right. Here cheek by jowl are the dandy artists the professionals the gentlemen riders the hard men: observers whose reactions range from the amiable to the savage. Through their eyes and their work we can relish the vendettas of their time and enjoy their cele bration – or deflation – of the eminent the power- ful the over-weening the glamorous and the plain notorious: an intriguing perspective on the social political and cultural life of Western society from the seventeenth century to the present day. (MP)