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Preferred term

Caricature  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • 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)

Entry terms

  • Caricatures

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-PPMCNMM9-F

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