Celebrity caricature in America
By: Wendy Wick Reaves ; Pie Friendly, research assistant.
Contributors: Friendly, Pie.; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: American wit and humor, Pictorial -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.; Celebrities -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Exhibitions.
Description: Mae West, George Gershwin, the Marx Brothers, Babe Ruth - these were just a few of the celebrities caricatured in popular American periodicals during the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents hundreds of rediscovered drawings and introduces an overlooked type of portraiture based on modern design and a preoccupation with personality-based fame.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-297) and index.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 10-August 23, 1998.