Profusely Illustrated

<b>The fabulous life and times of one of our wittiest most endearing and enduring caricaturists&#151;in his own words and inimitable art. <b>Sorel has given us some of the best pictorial satire of our time ... [his] pen can slash as well as any sword&#148; (<i>The Washington Post</i>).</b></b><br><br>Alongside more than 172 of his drawings cartoons and caricatures&#151;and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork&#151;Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; his time as a student at New York&#146;s famed High School of Music and Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast which became the hottest design group of the 1960s; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York&#146;s art and literary circles.<br>&#160;<br>As the &#147;young lefty&#148; becomes an &#147;old lefty&#148; Sorel charts the highlights of his remarkable life by both telling us and showing us how in magazines and newspapers books murals cartoons and comic strips he steadily lampooned&#151;and celebrated&#151;American cultural and political life. He sets his story in the parallel trajectory of American presidents from FDR&#146;s time to the present day&#151;with the candor and depth of insight that could come only from someone who lived through it all.<br>&#160;<br>In <i>Profusely Illustrated</i> Sorel reveals the kaleidoscopic ways in which the personal and political collide in art&#151;a collision that is simultaneously brilliant in concept and uproarious and beautiful in its representation.