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Celebrity caricature in America

by Wendy Wick Reaves · 1998

Cover of Celebrity caricature in America
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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.

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