Low's Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of the twentieth century's most celebrated and devastating political cartoonists, David Low tells his own story in Low's Autobiography — a candid, witty, and razor-sharp account of a life spent skewering the powerful with pen and ink. From his early years in New Zealand and Australia to his triumphant rise through the corridors of Fleet Street, Low chronicles his remarkable journey as the artist who made Hitler tremble and Churchill laugh, crafting iconic images that shaped public opinion across two world wars and beyond. A masterwork of self-reflection by a man whose art was inseparable from history itself, this memoir presents the creative mind and irreverent spirit behind some of the most recognisable political imagery of the modern era. Low's prose carries the same incisive wit and economy of line that defined his cartoons, offering readers an intimate portrait of the artist as satirist, observer, and conscience of an age. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, politics, and history, this autobiography raises a tantalising question: when a man who defined an era finally speaks in full sentences rather than caricatures, what truths does he dare to draw?
Author: David Low
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
One of the twentieth century's most celebrated and devastating political cartoonists, David Low tells his own story in Low's Autobiography — a candid, witty, and razor-sharp account of a life spent skewering the powerful with pen and ink. From his early years in New Zealand and Australia to his triumphant rise through the corridors of Fleet Street, Low chronicles his remarkable journey as the artist who made Hitler tremble and Churchill laugh, crafting iconic images that shaped public opinion across two world wars and beyond. A masterwork of self-reflection by a man whose art was inseparable from history itself, this memoir presents the creative mind and irreverent spirit behind some of the most recognisable political imagery of the modern era. Low's prose carries the same incisive wit and economy of line that defined his cartoons, offering readers an intimate portrait of the artist as satirist, observer, and conscience of an age. For anyone captivated by the intersection of art, politics, and history, this autobiography raises a tantalising question: when a man who defined an era finally speaks in full sentences rather than caricatures, what truths does he dare to draw?