Summary
After that chronological opening, the exhibition degenerates into thematic meltdown. The best I can do is to mention a few of the many interesting things on show. Anything by Leech and Keene is always worth looking at, and the comparison of a Keene preparatory ink drawing with the wood engraving made from it demonstrates how the subtleties of expression are often lost in the transfer.
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Drawing a Fine Line
Satire is one of the great British traditions, closely associated with the notions of personal liberty, readiness to express opinion and our much-vaunted freedom of thought. The English appetite for satire has long set standards of democratic licence unequalled in the rest of the world: the lampoon is sacrosanct in our culture, a guarantee of a healthily sceptical at...
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