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Publication Formats > Pictorial Work > Caricature
Publication Components > Book Illustrations > Caricature

Preferred term

Caricature  

Type

  • Publication Type

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Entry terms

  • Caricatures

Note

  • This heading is used as a Publication Type. Caricatures as a subject are indexed under the main heading CARICATURES AS TOPIC. Publication Type CARTOON is also available. INDEXER: Do not use

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 2008(1997)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019492

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