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

Title: The art of controversy : political cartoons and their enduring power / Victor S. Navasky.
Author: Navasky, Victor S.
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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xxii, 231 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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. "--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The cartoon as content -- The cartoon as image -- The cartoon as stimulus -- Caricature -- the gallery. William Hogarth ; James Gillray ; Francisco Goya ; Charles Philipon ; Honoré Daumier ; Thomas Nast ; Pablo Picasso ; The Masses : Art Young and Robert Minor ; Käthe Kollwitz ; George Grosz ; John Heartfield ; Der Stürmer ; David Low ; Philip Zec ; Victor Weisz (Vicky) ; Bill Mauldin ; Herbert Block (Herblock) ; Al Hirschfeld ; ; Raymond Jackson (Jak) ; Ralph Steadman ; Robert Edwards ; Naji al-Ali -- Edward Sorel ; Robert Grossman ; Steve Platt and the New Statesman ; The New Yorker images ; Doug Marlette ; Plantu and the Danish Muhammads ; Qaddafi and the Bulgarians ; Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) ; David Levine.

ISBN

9780307957207 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2012038247

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Harvard Library