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Deny Fear

3 Aug, 33 tweets, 12 min read

"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

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Caricature of Emile Zola by Nadar, 1870s
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This is one of my favourite caricatures:
Honoré de Balzac by Benjamin Roubaud, 1838
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"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...

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A caricature of Leopold Stokowski by Miguel Covarrubias, 1925
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A caricature of Elia Kazan by Al Hirschfeld, c. 1942
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Alfred Bendiner's caricature of Dimitri Mitropoulos, c. 1945
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This one is so good:
Nickolas Muray by Ralph Barton, 1930
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Perhaps not precisely a caricature, but I love this:
Jeanne Moreau by Kees Van Dongen, 1965
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A caricature of James Abbott McNeill Whistler by Alfred Bryan, 1883
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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
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A caricature of Michael Caine by James Hague
oil on board, 1998
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Sir John Hurt by Stuart Pearson Wright
oil on gesso on oak panel, 2000
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For Louis Armstrong's birthday, my favourite portraits 🎂
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Saul Steinberg & Hedda Sterne by Arnold Newman, 1951
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal, 1969, for their album Déja Vu
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Happy 95th birthday to the great Tony Bennett 🎂
A great portrait by Herman Leonard, New York, 1950
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From Tony Bennett's 1992 album Perfectly Frank, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Tony sings the rarely heard verse!
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Remembering P. D. James on her birthday 🎂
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