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Aug 3, 2021 • 33 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X
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"The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment, in the most beautiful manner."
- Max Beerbohm
Rossetti’s Courtship
A thread of caricatures
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
- Joseph Conrad
Stendahl by Bod
Jean Cocteau's caricature of Igor Stravinsky conducting The Rite of Spring
David Levine is one of my favourite caricaturists
Here are his Kierkegaard & his Henry David Thoreau
Caricature of Gioachino Rossini by Étienne Carjat
More caricatures by David Levine
V.S. Pritchett & Pauline Kael
More caricatures by David Levine
Marshall McLuhan & a self-portrait
Caricature of Clarice Lispector by Pancho
An awesome caricature of Northrop Frye by Tony Jenkins
Another caricature of Northrop Frye, this time by Van Howell
There's something about Northrop...
Caricature of Lord Byron, by Morales de los Ríos
A very witty caricature of Gabriel Fauré, by Daniel de Losques
A caricature of Oscar Niemeyer by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
Caricature by Gene Markey of three NY Dramatic Critics:
Robert Benchley, Percy Hammond & Alexander Woollcott
Markey was quite a guy. "Not overly handsome," according to Wikipedia, yet he married Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr & Myrna Loy, among others.
A caricature of G. K. Chesterton by Powys Evans, 1926
Caricature of Emile Zola by Nadar, 1870s
@GallicaBnF
This is one of my favourite caricatures:
Honoré de Balzac by Benjamin Roubaud, 1838
@GallicaBnF
"Caricature is rough truth."
- George Meredith
Hector Berlioz by Carjat
Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss & Roland Barthes
A caricature by Maurice Henry published in La Quinzaine littéraire, July 1, 1967
A wonderful Heitor Villa-Lobos caricature by Fraga. Notice the Little Train of the Caipira
More Villa-Lobos caricatures: by Lored Ano & Fernando Campos
Even more caricatures of Heitor Villa-Lobos, by Lézio Junior & Cavalcante
Lots of great caricaturists in Brazil!
Okay, just one more:
Heitor Villa-Lobos by Hugo
A thread of caricatures...
A caricature of Leopold Stokowski by Miguel Covarrubias, 1925
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
A caricature of Elia Kazan by Al Hirschfeld, c. 1942
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Alfred Bendiner's caricature of Dimitri Mitropoulos, c. 1945
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
This one is so good:
Nickolas Muray by Ralph Barton, 1930
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Perhaps not precisely a caricature, but I love this:
Jeanne Moreau by Kees Van Dongen, 1965
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
A caricature of James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Alfred Bryan, 1883
@Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Joseph Grant's caricature of Peter Lorre in M, 1931
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The Two Ronnies - Barker & Corbett - a caricature by Barry Fantoni
pencil and gouache, 1976
@NPGLondon
A caricature of Michael Caine by James Hague
oil on board, 1998
@NPGLondon
Sir John Hurt by Stuart Pearson Wright
oil on gesso on oak panel, 2000
@NPGLondon
A thread of caricatures...

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Jun 7, 2023
Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk 🎂
📷 Ara Güler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
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This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury. Image
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May 15, 2023
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier Image
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
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On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
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May 15, 2023
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. 🧵 Image
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The Lady of Shalott, 2018 Image
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem. Image
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May 14, 2023
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola 🎂
📷 Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur — a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman Image
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1974 Image
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
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May 14, 2023
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles
#RedGarland100 Image
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.

#RedGarland100 Image
Esmond Edwards tells a great story about Red Garland's legendary tardiness.
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May 13, 2023
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday 🎂
📷 Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear Image
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1968 Image
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV. Image
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