Four Modes of Caricature Jim Sherry（四个模式的漫画吉姆雪利酒）.pdf

1 Four Modes of Caricature: Reflections upon a Genre* by James Sherry When mens faces are drawn with resemblance to some other animals the Italians call it, to be drawn in caricatura. SIR THOMAS BROWNE [Caricature is the] delicious art of exaggerating, without fear or favour, the peculiarities of this or that human body, for the mere sake of exaggeration. MAX BEERBOHM [Caricature] has for a very long time been understood to include within its meaning any pictorial or graphic satire, political or otherwise, and whether the drawing be exaggerated or not. GRAHAM EVERITT Caricature can be described as ‘putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth. BOHUN LYNCH Caricature has always had trouble being taken seriously. Though it has attracted the efforts of a number of great artists--Bernini, Tiepolo, and Burne-Jones, to name just three—most artists have seen caricature as a release or diversion from their real labors.1 Sir Joshua Reynolds is typical. Having produced several excellent caricature conversation pieces during his student days in Rome, he left off the practice entirely once he returned to England. A reputation for caricature, he thought, could only be damaging to an artist with ambition.2 Even the founders of caricature, Annibale and Agostino