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Infinite Jest: Caricature from Leonardo to Levine

McPhee, Constance C., and Nadine M. Orenstein (2011)

This title is out of print.

New York Book Show Awards, Special Trade, Fine Art Under $75, Merit Award (2011)
New York Book Festival Award in Photography/Art, Winner (2011)

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Infinite Jest: Caricature from Leonardo to Levine

The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Museum's Department of Drawings and Prints. The show includes drawings and prints by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya alongside works by artists more often associated with humor, such as James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, Al Hirschfeld, and David Levine. Many of these engaging caricatures and satires have never been exhibited and are little known except to specialists....