Philip Guston's Poor Richard
By: [Debra Bricker Balken].
Contributors: Balken, Debra Bricker.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Guston, Philip, -- 1913-; Nixon, Richard, -- 1913-; American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Other titles: Poor Richard.
Description: "In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Poor Richard. Produced two years before Watergate and three years before Nixon's resignation, these condemnations of a corrupt head of state are remarkable, prescient political satire. The drawings mock Nixon's physical attributes - his nose is rendered as an enlarged phallus throughout - as well as his notoriously dubious, shifty character.

This book is the first complete publication of these drawings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.