Title: Celebrity caricature in America
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Exhibitions, American wit and humor, Pictorial, Celebrities, Pictorial American wit and humor, Caricatures and cartoons, History
Places: New York, New York (State), United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: NC1426 .R3 1998