Pat Oliphant
Autore di Leadership: Political Cartoons & Sculptures From The Bush Years
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Fonte dell'immagine: Universal Uclick
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Pat Oliphant: O'Grady Galleries 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Oliphant, Patrick Bruce
- Data di nascita
- 1935-07-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia (birth)
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Attività lavorative
- political cartoonist
copy boy
press artist - Relazioni
- Oliphant, Sir Mark (uncle)
- Organizzazioni
- Adelaide Advertiser
Adelaide News
Denver Post
Washington Star - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize (Editorial Cartooning, 1967)
Reuben Award ( [1968, 1972])
Second place award from International Federation of Free Journalists, London, 1958, for funniest cartoonist
second place award from California Newspapers Publishers Association, 1960, for international cartoon competition
professional journalism award from Sigma Delta Chi, 1966
distinguished service award for conservation from National Wildlife Foundation, 1969
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 34
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 402
- Popolarità
- #60,416
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 21
- ISBN
- 29
- Preferito da
- 1
Oliphant's art is distinctive and his caricatured subjects are always recognizable. His perspective on political figures of the day is often biting; he says in drawing things that few would dare to say in print in local newspapers.
"An Informal Gathering" collects political cartoons from 1973 through 1977 -- a time period that can be labelled as late in "the Nixon years" through the early years of the Carter presidency. Most of the cartoons deal with issues and events that will be remembered by US citizens who spent their adulthood during this period. Nixon is recognizable as a dark, brooding figure, and Jimmy Carter, as a lightweight nincompoop out of his depth in the presidency. (See the cartoon that graces the front cover as an example).
I highly recommend this collection. Even many years after the events portrayed, its political cartoons range from amusing to acerbic, commonly thought provoking, and often powerful. If freedom on speech is ever lost in the US, it would be political cartoonists of Oliphant's talent and vision who would be among the first to go.… (altro)