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Caricatures
Medical Definition: | Works 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 Collections Cataloguing, 2d ed) |
Guide Notes: | IM; coord with subject (IM) or person with required biog and hist headings & check tags; do not confuse with Publication Type CARICATURES; CARTOONS is also available |
Cartoons - Sketches or drawings, usually humorous, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed) |
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