Table of Contents

Director's Foreword / Kimerly Rorshach vii
Curator's Acknowledgments / Neil McWilliam 1
Drawing Boundaries: Comic Critique in the Grotesque Bodies of Louis-Philippe and George W. Bush / Alison Hafera Cox 9
From the Palais-Royal to Cable Television: The Changing Faces of Parodic Satire / Katherine Arpen 15
Noble Savage or Naughty Monkey? Primitivism and Portrayals of the George W. Bush Presidency / Alexis Clark 26
"The Compliment of Suppression": Censorship of Political Caricature in the July Monarchy and the George W. Bush Administration / Kathereine de Vos Devine 35
Plate Illustrations
Caricaturing Louis-Philippe 45
Caricature and the Contemporary Presidency 59
Exhibition Checklist 82

Promotional Information

Catalogue for a recent museum exhibition on caricature and political cartoons, juxtaposing images that lampooned George W Bush with cartoons that critiqued the 19th century French aristocracy

About the Author

Neil McWilliam is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. He is the author of Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, A Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-siècle France and a co-editor of Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870–1914.