The art of controversy : political cartoons and their enduring power / Victor S. Navasky.

By: Material type: TextTextCopyright date: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013Description: xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307957207
  • 0307957209
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.02/07 23
LOC classification:
  • NC1763.P66 N38 2013
NLM classification:
  • 320.02 N322a
Online resources:
Contents:
The cartoon as content -- The cartoon as image -- The cartoon as stimulus -- Caricature -- The Gallery. William Hogarth ; James
Summary: "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, Thomas Nast, Ralph Steadman, et al.--as he asks what makes cartoons so uniquely positioned to affect our minds and our hearts. Incorporating neuroscience, psychology, and a sweeping historical view of the cartoon's evolution, The Art of Controversy is a book for all lovers of satire, politics, and the vastly underappreciated and endlessly surprising art form of the political cartoon"-- Provided by publisher.
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"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, Thomas Nast, Ralph Steadman, et al.--as he asks what makes cartoons so uniquely positioned to affect our minds and our hearts. Incorporating neuroscience, psychology, and a sweeping historical view of the cartoon's evolution, The Art of Controversy is a book for all lovers of satire, politics, and the vastly underappreciated and endlessly surprising art form of the political cartoon"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cartoon as content -- The cartoon as image -- The cartoon as stimulus -- Caricature -- The Gallery. William Hogarth ; James

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