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Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power
Knopf
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0307957209
EAN: 9780307957207
Kindle: B009QJMWC0
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Non-Fiction
A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original 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
S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and
incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers
through some of the greatest cartoons ever created,
including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock,
Honoré Daumier, and Ralph
Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and
caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated,
and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this
art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised
to affect our minds and our hearts.
Drawing on his
own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with
cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums
across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as
both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh
images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's
Guernica, Goya's "Duendecitos"), images that
provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New
Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim
and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office),
and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s
defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi
periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic
caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other
superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons
have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout
history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful
cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long
after their creation.
Here Victor S. Navasky
brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most
enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.
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