Them damned pictures : explorations in American political cartoon art

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Label

Them damned pictures : explorations in American political cartoon art

Title remainder

explorations in American political cartoon art

Statement of responsibility

by Roger A. Fischer

Creator

• Fischer, Roger A., 1939-

Contributor

• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Subject

• American wit and humor, Pictorial
• Caricatures and cartoons -- Political aspects -- United States
• Caricatures and cartoons | Political aspects | United States
• Geschichte 1870-1995
• United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Caricatures and cartoons
• 1800-1999
• United States | Politics and government | Caricatures and cartoons | 19th century
• United States | Politics and government | Caricatures and cartoons | 20th century
• United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons

Genre

• Caricatures and cartoons

Language

eng

Summary

In late nineteenth-century America, political cartoonists Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, Bernhard Gillam and Grant Hamilton enjoyed a stature as political powerbrokers barely imaginable in today's world of instant information and electronic reality. Their drawings in Harper's Weekly, the dime humor magazines Puck and the Judge, and elsewhere were often in their own right major political events. In a world of bare-knuckles partisan journalism, such power often corrupted, and creative genius was rarely restrained by ethics. Interpretations gave way to sheer invention, transforming public servants into ogres more by physiognomy than by fact. Blacks, Indians, the Irish, Jews, Mormons, and Roman Catholics were reduced to a few stereotypical characteristics that would make a modern-day bigot blush. In this pungent climate, and with well over 100 cartoons as living proof, Roger Fischer - in a series of lively episodes - weaves the cartoon genre in to the larger fabric of politics and thought the Guilded Age, and beyond

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

741.5/0973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NC1425

LC item number

.F57 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography