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Faces: 78 Portraits from Madonna to the Pope

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"Hanoch Piven has taken the art of caricature to a whole new level. With a minimalist stroke of his deft hand, combined with an object related to what the subject is noted for--along with his sharp wit--Piven presents his vision of the celebrities he portrays.

"The stories Piven tells about each face are enlivened by elemental puns, developed from the three-step creative process. As Piven is sketching the subject in pencil, he is coming up with a word or two to describe the person: 'Americana' for Bruce Springsteen, 'media' for Jesse Jackson. Now he goes out 'to the field' to find the appropriate object, the field being anything from a toy store to a hardware store. Then he lays out all the stuff he has found and combines the objects, adding or culling as necessary, until he achieves the minimum amount of information the viewer needs to recognize the person.

"Thus we have Steven Spielberg's beard and moustache expressed with strips of film; Jesse Jackson's mouth is a speaker. Within the seven categories of TV, film, music, American politics, the world, finance, and miscellaneous, Faces by Hanoch Piven presents 78 deliciously wicked takes on the likes of such diverse folk as Sigmund Freud, Marilyn Monroe, and the Unabomber.

"Piven's work has appeared in such publications as Time, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice. Introduction by Steve Brodner. 88 pages, 78 full-color portraits, size: 6 3/4 x 9". Casebound book, with dust-jacket. ISBN: 0-7649-2131-2."--© Pomegranate

This book has some spot on likenesses-especially the one of that FAT pigly she-male Rosie O'Donnel.The use of the Hostess snack products for her face is genius! Buy this book if you appreciate intelligent art.