The art of controversy : political cartoons and their enduring power /
Victor S. Navasky.
- xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Timeline.
"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."--