Max Beerbohm caricatures
By: N. John Hall.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 -- Themes, motives.; Celebrities -- Caricatures and cartoons.; English wit and humor, Pictorial.
Description: This delightful book is an anthology of Beerbohm's best images, accompanied by historical and analytical commentary by John Hall that is enriched by liberal quotation from Beerbohm's own witty essays, criticism, letters and fiction. The 213 caricatures reproduced here are arranged in chapters by category: writers, including Wilde, Kipling, James, Conrad, Yeats, Twain, Wells, Hardy, Strachey, Forster, and Pound; theatre people, including Ibsen, Shaw, and Barrie; artists, including Whistler, Sargent, and Fry; politicians, including Disraeli, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, and Churchill; royalty, especially King Edward VII (Beerbohm's favourite subject), but also Queen Victoria, George V, and Edward VIII; and miscellaneous contemporaries, including Caruso, Sousa, and financier Alfred De Rothschild. Also reproduced are generous selections from Beerbohm's two books of caricatures dealing with the past: Dante, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Browning from The Poet's Corner; and Rossetti, Swinburne, Ruskin, Morris and others from Rossetti and His Circle. The final chapter is devoted to self-portraits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-231) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 6; title: Picture Credits
pagenum: 8; title: Introduction
pagenum: 9; label: I
title: The Literary Life
pagenum: 17; label: II
title: The Theatre
pagenum: 78; label: III
title: The Art World
pagenum: 112; label: IV
title: Politicians
pagenum: 148; label: V
title: Royalty
pagenum: 170; label: VI
title: And Others
pagenum: 184; label: VII
title: The Storied Past
pagenum: 202; label: VIII
title: Self-Portraits
pagenum: 218; title: Notes
pagenum: 226; title: Index of Subjects Caricatured
pagenum: 232; title: General Index
pagenum: 235