<span>For many aficionados 
of the New Yorker magazine, the drawings of Peter Arno, William Steig, 
Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg epitomize its sophisticated wit and 
disarming humor. In Laughing with 'The New Yorker', the first full-scale
 scholarly study of the subject, Iain Topliss considers the work of each
 artist, traces the development of his art, and recalls the cultural and
 social context in which it was created. Topliss delves into the nature 
of humor and the elements that make successful cartoons funny, paying 
special attention to matters of style and technique. He draws particular
 attention to the ways in which these four artists mocked the status quo
 without alienating the magazine's readers. Indeed, argues Topliss, the 
New Yorker's cartoons helped define American consciousness in the 
mid-twentieth century. Illustrated with more than fifty drawings from 
the artists published in the magazine between 1925 and 1975, Laughing 
with 'The New Yorker' recognizes the achievements of these talented 
artists and their distinctive contribution to American culture.</span>

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