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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, Honor**é**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 B

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Author

Victor S. Navasky

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307962140

Category

art

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.73 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14