Warning! graphic content
Subtitle: political cartoons, comix and the uncensored artistic mind
By: by Mr. Fish ; Larry Gross, editor
Contributors: Gross, Larry P., 1942-
Publisher: USC Annenberg Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781625178695
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons; Social aspects; History; Pictorial Wit and humor
Other titles: Political cartoons, comics, and the uncensored artisitic mind
Description: "Have your IDs ready and your intolerance for incendiary pictures and controversial ideas checked at the door for it's time to step into the head of the unabashedly liberal awardwinning cartoonist and writer Dwayne Booth (aka 'Mr. Fish'), where inflammatory ideas meet deep insights -- and things like inspiring woe, discouraging indifference and gleeful nihilism are born. In WARNING! Graphic Content, Mr. Fish examines the past, present and future of art as commentary, deciphering its substructure and translating its unique alphabet into a wholly accessible vocabulary. A handful of those images are shown here. Through extensive interviews... and nearly 400 provocative images, Mr. Fish demonstrates how uncensored art and weaponized jokes from cartoonists, satirists and fine artists through history provide humanity with its most thorough and revealing self-portraits."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Act 1. Exposition: a cartoon by any other name : Watching cartoons ; Nasty behavior ; Space oddity; title: Act 2. Rising action: to see or not to see : The arthole ; I can't look ; A conversation with Paul Conrad; title: Act 3. Climax: ready... aim... draw! : Crowd control ; No laughing matter ; A conversation with Paul Krassner; title: Intermission : And now a word from our monsters; title: Act 4. Falling action: drawing fire in the theater of the mind : Moving pictures ; Just say know ; A conversation with Art Spiegelman; title: Act 5 : Dénouement: Portrait of the artist as a portrait of an artist who is an artist because he's doing a portrait of himself looking like an artist and that's what an artist does if he wants everybody else to think he's an artist when they look at him and see him doing a portrait of himself looking like an artist : Connecting the dots with imaginary lines ; The pen is mightier then the horde ; A conversation with Noam Chomsky; title: Epilogue:  Now let's meet the panelists; title: Appendices : Artists featured.