The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

The author offers a lively, anecdotal memoir combining comic art criticism, practical accounts of creating and exhibiting parodies of contemporary painters, and travel sketches from overseas tours. He recounts the mechanics of staging an exhibition and the public and critical responses, mixes stage and lecturing experiences with backstage mishaps, and records encounters and observations made on voyages and foreign visits. Wry self-reflection and satire run through discussions of technique, public taste, commercial pressures, and artistic eccentricities, yielding a series of humorous, behind-the-scenes portraits of creative life and its absurdities.