The brilliant satirical artist Edward Sorel takes us on a hop, skip, and laugh through history. Along the way are deliciously wicked caricatures of the great and near great from the worlds of art, entertainment, and politics. Sorel includes a delightful autobiographical introduction and a pithy, informative caption with each "portrait". 175 illus. 125 in color.
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The brilliant satirical artist Edward Sorel takes us on a hop, skip, and laugh through history. Along the way are deliciously wicked caricatures of the great and near great from the worlds of art, entertainment, and politics. Sorel includes a delightful autobiographical introduction and a pithy, informative caption with each "portrait". 175 illus. 125 in color.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($40.00 price intact). Published by Knopf, 1997. Quarto. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gold with orange endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 173 pages. ISBN: 0679454667. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Used-Like New. From one of America's most brilliant satirical artists: his best, his funniest, his most deliciously wicked and memorable caricatures of the past thirty years. Here are history's great and near great--166 heroes, rogues, fools, and geniuses: from Moses leading his kvetching people ('Some miracle! If I don't get pneumonia, that'll be a miracle') through the parted Red Sea waters, to George Gershwin teaching Fred Astaire a dance step, to Madonna seen as a horseperson of the apocalypse; from Brahms dozing off as Liszt plays, to Rodin auditioning models, and Reagan as Robin Hood, taking from the poor and giving to the rich. Here are such fabulous targets for the satirist's pen as LBJ, Nixon and the Watergate Gang, a holstered Jimmy Carter at high noon in the hostage crisis, and a poignant Dan Quayle as the central figure in a comic strip about a man who wants a little respect. And it's pure pleasure to watch Sorel portray Tom Wolfe in his famous white suit or Woody Allen and Mia Farrow caught in The Storm, or draw a bead on such superstars as Picasso and John Updike, Barbra Streisand, Colette, Truman Capote, and the entire cast of Casablanca. Each of the book's three sections--'History, ' 'Entertainment and the Arts, ' 'Politics'--has a wry autobiographical introduction, and every drawing has its own pithy, informative caption. Here's wit aplenty, visual and verbal--a splendid satirical view of the wise, the beautiful, the clever, and the flawed, over the centuries, who loom large in our lives and in our imaginations. The brilliant satirical artist Edward Sorel takes us on a hop, skip, and laugh through history. Along the way are deliciously wicked caricatures of the great and near great from the worlds of art, entertainment, and politics. Sorel includes a delightful autobiographical introduction and a pithy, informative caption with each 'portrait'. 175 illus. 125 in color.
