- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Plate Acknowledgements
- Plates
- Introduction
- The Early Years
- From ‘Byzantine’ Miniatures to the Song of Songs
- From La Tentation de Saint Antoine to the Statute of Kalisz
- From George Washington to the League of Nations
- An Ambassador for Co-operation
- From The Haggadah to The Rubáiyát
- From Miniature to Caricature
- An Artist with a Message
- A Public Service Artist
- The Turn towards Peace
- Drawing Lessons
- Illustrations for a Young Peace
- Fighting for Israel
- In a Changing America
- Valediction
- Creating Arthur Szyk
- The Jewish Artist
- The Political Artist
- Books with Illustrations by Szyk
- Exhibitions and Reviews of Szyk’s Work
- Published Political Cartoons 1939–1950
- War Cartoons: Corporate Use
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
From Miniature to Caricature
From Miniature to Caricature
- Chapter:
- (p.111) From Miniature to Caricature
- Source:
- Arthur Szyk
- Author(s):
Joseph P. Ansell
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter examines Arthur Szyk's career as a political caricaturist during World War II. In less than four months, since the September 1939 German invasion of Poland, Szyk had created a significant number of images directed against the Nazi aggressors. The range of subjects treated in these works is broad. There are the expected caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, ridiculing them and indicting their ideas and actions. Others depict Nazi ‘types’, anonymous members of the Schutzstaffel (SS) or the war staff; they are shown as brutal and unthinking, with an air of superiority that is patently false and hollow. These images express the trenchant political invective associated with caricature. Yet there is another group of works which, although in the same style as the caricatures, might best be described as political drawings. This significant portion of Szyk's images concentrates on Polish citizens and their struggle to survive.
Keywords: Polish citizens, World War II, political caricatures, Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, political drawings
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Plate Acknowledgements
- Plates
- Introduction
- The Early Years
- From ‘Byzantine’ Miniatures to the Song of Songs
- From La Tentation de Saint Antoine to the Statute of Kalisz
- From George Washington to the League of Nations
- An Ambassador for Co-operation
- From The Haggadah to The Rubáiyát
- From Miniature to Caricature
- An Artist with a Message
- A Public Service Artist
- The Turn towards Peace
- Drawing Lessons
- Illustrations for a Young Peace
- Fighting for Israel
- In a Changing America
- Valediction
- Creating Arthur Szyk
- The Jewish Artist
- The Political Artist
- Books with Illustrations by Szyk
- Exhibitions and Reviews of Szyk’s Work
- Published Political Cartoons 1939–1950
- War Cartoons: Corporate Use
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
