Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 7, 1990 - January 15, 1991, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 20 - May 12, 1991 and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 21 - September 15, 1991. Texts by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik, exhibition curators, are divided into sections entitled "Words," "Graffiti," "Caricature," "Comics," "Advertising," "Contemporary Reflections," and illustrated with examples of artwork in each category. Artists include Berenice Abbott, Tony Abruzzo, Altamira, Guillaume Apollinaire, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Eugène Atget, Giacomo Balla, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Charles Baudelaire, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ashley Bickerton, William Blake, Pierre Bonnard, Lucien Boucher, Jules-Joseph-Guillaume Bourdet, Giovanni Battista Braccelli, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Brassaï, Giovanni Antonio de Brescia, Roger Brown, Bryan Burkey, Wilhelm Busch, Jacques Callott, Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Carlo Carrà, Agostino Carracci, Jules Chéret, Vittorio Corcos, Joseph Cornell, Miguel Covarrubias, Johnny Craig, Robert Crumb, Jean-Pierre Dantan, Harry Grant Dart, Honoré Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Stuart Davis, Robert Delaunay, Kees van Dongen, George Du Maurier, René Dubosc, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, P. Edmonds, Will Elder, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Louise Ernst-Straus, Öyvind Fahlström, Lyonel Feininger, Bud Fisher, Freedom, John Henry Fuseli, Gamy, James Gillray, Vincent van Gogh, William Golden, Floyd Gottfredson, Chester Gould, Jerry Grandinetti, J. J. Grandville, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Olaf Gulbransson, Philip Guston, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Peter Halley, Gary Hallgren, Richard Hamilton, V. T. Hamlin, Keith Haring, Raoul Hausmann, Russ Heath, George Herriman, Hindre, Hannah Höch, William Hogarth, Jenny Holzer, Ub Iwerks, Jess, Jasper Johns, Asger Jorn, Juez, Robert Kane, Paul Klee, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Harvey Kurtzman, Lee and Fred, Fernand Léger, Leonardo da Vinci, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, El Lissitzky, E. V. Lucas, George B. Luks, René Magritte, Kasimir Malevich, Man Ray, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Charles Marville, Winsor McCay, John McHale, Michelin & Cie, Joan Miró, George Morris, Kolomon Moser, Edvard Munch, Gerald Murphy, Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, NOC, Irv Novick, O'Galop, Claes Oldenburg, Meret Oppenheim, Timothy O'Sullivan, Richard Felton Outcault, Eduardo Paolozzi, Boulet Dru Dupuy Petit, Charles Philipon, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Francisque Poulbot, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Rauschenberg, Edouard Riou, José Robledano, Aleksandr Rodchenko, James Rosenquist, Mimmo Rotella, Ed Ruscha, Bernard Sachs, David Salle, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Erhard Schön, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Seurat, Cindy Sherman, Joe Shuster, Aaron Siskind, Robert Smithson, Art Spiegelman, Saul Steinberg, Cliff Sterrett, Alfred Stieglitz, James Swinnerton, Tad, Antoni Tàpies, John Tenniel, Rodolphe Töpffer, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles-Joseph Traviès, Cy Twombly, Victor Vasarely, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Horace Vernet, Jacques de la Villeglé, Johann Michael Voltz, Mort Walker, Andy Warhol, Wolcott, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood. Includes notes, bibliography, and an index of illustrations.
