The Art of Controversy
by NAVASKY, VICTOR SFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2013-04-09
Publisher(s): Knopf
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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, 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 is a book for all lovers of satire, politics, and the vastly underappreciated and endlessly surprising art form of the political cartoon.
Author Biography
Victor S. Navasky is the former editor and publisher of The Nation, and a former editor at The New York Times Magazine, who once founded his own quarterly of political satire, Monocle, “a radical sporadical.” He is the author of, among other books, Naming Names, which won a 1982 National Book Award, and A Matter of Opinion, which won the George Polk Book Award. He teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he is the director of the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism and chair of the Columbia Journalism Review. He lives in New York.
Table of Contents
Introduction
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 Maudlin
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
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 Maudlin
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
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