Art of Controversy Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power

Name: Art of Controversy Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
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ISBN: 9780307957207

ISBN-10: 0307957209

ISBN-13: 9780307957207

Edition: 2013

Authors: Victor S. Navasky

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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, Honoré 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…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Introduction


The Cartoon as Content


The Cartoon as Image


The Cartoon as Stimulus


Caricature


The Gallery


William Hogarth


James Gillray


Francisco Goya


Charles Philipon


Honorï¿½ Daumier


Thomas Nast


Pablo Picasso


The Masses: Art Young and Robert Minor


Kï¿½the Kollwitz


George Grosz


John Heartfield


Der Stï¿½rmer


David Low


Philip Zee


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


Timeline


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography


Index