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"Two years after he published 'The Underground Sketchbook' in 1964, Tomi Ungerer conceived 'The Party', a take-down of the super-rich as savage as anything George Grosz or Ralph Steadman put on paper. The premise of the book is a party in the Hamptons attended by a coterie of fat cats: captains of industry, tycoons, magnates, and moguls, luxuriating in their tuxedos, evening gowns, and prattling small talk. The party was given by Mrs. Julia Van Flooze, summer resident of East Hampton Long Island. Known for her charity works, she gave the party to celebrate the return of Senator Leonard Rockfenter from a fact-finding trip in the Orient. And so, it begins: Ungerer takes acid pen in hand to depict a succession of smug, bloated, drooling, lascivious, ostentatious monsters. The reader encounters one grotesquerie after another as bigwigs and power couples cavort through the haze of booze and caviar, revealing their base natures and hedonistic libidinal impulses. Each Ungerer drawing is a masterpiece of hideousness, accompanied by a marvelously droll caption. In 'The Party', Ungerer unleashes one of the most caustic moral imaginations of any cartoonist, each slashing ink line dipped in scorn. Featuring an introduction by the fiery political cartoonist Mr. Fish."--Provided by publisher.… (mais)
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It's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The Satire as Ungerer mocks the One Percent with his grotesque and ugly art in this reprint of a work from the 1960s. He makes his point in the first couple pages, but then it just goes on and on for dozens of more pages of the same thing: body horror contrasted with the sort of pedestrian, cliched and empty sentences about the party attendees one would find in newspaper social pages of the era, e.g. "Meatpacking magnate Herman Urkel at the bridge table" paired with the image of a cow-faced man dangling from a hook in his skull.
It's a chore to read the whole thing. Ungerer's handwriting makes the captions hard to decipher at times (for instance, the quote above may actually reference "Herman Urpel" for all I know), and the particular attention he pays to women's breasts starts to feel hateful in the repetition. ( )
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Any resemblance to persons living or dead in the Hampton's area and elsewhere is purely coincidental. The characters in this sketchbook are fictitious
There were so many people present and so much to see that it was impossible to mention them all, who came to enjoy a most, most wonderful party. The party was given by Mrs. Julia Van Flooze summer resident of East Hampton L.I.~
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Warm Togetherness among the late stayers joining into a chorus of Broadway Melodies gave a final touch to the end of an unforgettable night.
"Two years after he published 'The Underground Sketchbook' in 1964, Tomi Ungerer conceived 'The Party', a take-down of the super-rich as savage as anything George Grosz or Ralph Steadman put on paper. The premise of the book is a party in the Hamptons attended by a coterie of fat cats: captains of industry, tycoons, magnates, and moguls, luxuriating in their tuxedos, evening gowns, and prattling small talk. The party was given by Mrs. Julia Van Flooze, summer resident of East Hampton Long Island. Known for her charity works, she gave the party to celebrate the return of Senator Leonard Rockfenter from a fact-finding trip in the Orient. And so, it begins: Ungerer takes acid pen in hand to depict a succession of smug, bloated, drooling, lascivious, ostentatious monsters. The reader encounters one grotesquerie after another as bigwigs and power couples cavort through the haze of booze and caviar, revealing their base natures and hedonistic libidinal impulses. Each Ungerer drawing is a masterpiece of hideousness, accompanied by a marvelously droll caption. In 'The Party', Ungerer unleashes one of the most caustic moral imaginations of any cartoonist, each slashing ink line dipped in scorn. Featuring an introduction by the fiery political cartoonist Mr. Fish."--Provided by publisher.
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It's a chore to read the whole thing. Ungerer's handwriting makes the captions hard to decipher at times (for instance, the quote above may actually reference "Herman Urpel" for all I know), and the particular attention he pays to women's breasts starts to feel hateful in the repetition. (