Download or read book Caricature written by James Parton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caricature and Other Comic Art In all Times and Many Lands By James Parton With 203 Illustrations In this volume there is, I believe, a greater variety of pictures of a comic and satirical cast than was ever before presented at one view. Many nations, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, are represented in it, as well as most of the names identified with art of this nature. The extraordinary liberality of the publishers, and the skill of their corps of engravers, have seconded my own industrious researches, and the result is a volume unique, at least, in the character of its illustrations. A large portion of its contents appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine during the year 1875; but many of the most curious and interesting of the pictures are given here for the first time; notably, those exhibiting the present or recent caricature of Germany, Spain, Italy, China, and Japan, several of which did not arrive in time for use in the periodical. Generally speaking, articles contributed to a Magazine may as well be left in their natural tomb of "back numbers," or "bound volumes;" for the better they serve a temporary purpose, the less adapted they are for permanent utility. Among the exceptions are such series as the present, which had no reference whatever to the passing months, and in the preparation of which a great expenditure was directed to a single class of objects of special interest. I am, indeed, amazed at the cost of producing such articles as these. So very great is the expense, that many subjects could not be adequately treated, with all desirable illustration, unless the publishers could offer the work to the public in portions. Among the Romans Among the Greeks Among the Ancient Egyptians Among the Hindoos Religious Caricature in the Middle Ages Secular Caricature in the Middle Ages Caricatures preceding the Reformation Comic Art and the Reformation In the Puritan Period Later Puritan Caricature Preceding Hogarth Hogarth and his Time English Caricature in the Revolutionary Period During the French Revolution Caricatures of Women and Matrimony Among the Chinese Comic Art in Japan French Caricature Later French Caricature Comic Art in Germany Comic Art in Spain Italian Caricature English Caricature of the Present Century Comic Art in Punch Early American Caricature Later American Caricature