Artful Jesters
Subtitle: Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781580082662
Subjects: Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects; Graphic design; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Humour; Fantasy in art; Art, American; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - General; Criticism; 20th century; Catalogs; Wit and humor in art
First sentence: Walter Askin's fictional kingdom is alive with "womsters," "poozlers," snug rats, and seers-terms the artist invented to describe the oddball collection of characters that inhabit his fantasy world and play in his comic soap operas.