Caricature [Publication Type]

Work portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)

Year introduced: 2008(1997)

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Tree Number(s): V01.185.500, V02.700.074

MeSH Unique ID: D019492

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• Caricatures

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Book Illustrations
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Pictorial Work
Caricature