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"Caricature is part of politics, but racist stereotyping isn't."
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He was part of a show called "Caricature" that aired on one of Iraq's Sunni satellite TV stations.
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The show was basically called "Caricature", and it mocked the Iraqi government.
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-- The inquiry of H. as to the meaning of a "Caricature," which he describes (though I doubt if he be correct as to all the personages), appears to me to point to a transaction in the history of the celebrated "Coalition Ministry" of Lord
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In 2004, he received a Special Award for Caricature during the 6th World Cartoon Conference held in Beijing, China and was also recognized for his contribution to Kenyan cartooning during the National Youth Convention in 2008.
Global Voices in English » Kenyan cartoonists find a home in the blogosphere 2009
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The first section, "Elements of Caricature," covers such areas as "Exaggeration and the Grotesque," and "Extreme Physiques," with magnificient examples by Leonardo da Vinci, William Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson.
Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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If laughter brings comfort in troubled times, you should make a beeline for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition, "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine," which will remind you that many of the same human and political foibles have repeated themselves throughout history.
Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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Many of his caricatures, such as "The Legislative Belly" from 1834, showing more than two dozen politicians idling away their time in parliament, were published in satirical dailies such as Le Charivari or La Caricature.
From Daumier to Degas: All the Best Art That's Fit to Print 2011
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Caricature plays on the monstrous for comic pay-off; it turns earlobes into wind-flaps, lips into gaudy sausages.
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In graduate school I came upon an interesting book called Latin America in Caricature.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks: Psychologically Profiling Latin American Leaders Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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