Heroes & Villains

by Parris, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781855143388
• ISBN10: 1855143380
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

Summary

Heroes and Villains is a unique collaboration with the caricaturist Gerald Scarfe, which is accompanied by a National Portrait Gallery display. The book and display will also be the subject of a documentary on BBC Four. In the book, portraits of well-known figures, selected from the National Portrait Gallery's collections, are quirkily juxtaposed with caricatures that depict their villainous side. Gerald Scarfe, Britain's best-known caricaturist, provides these artful, glib distortions, many of which are specially commissioned for the book. They reveal the wit and vision of an exceptional draughtsman at work. Brian Sewell, Joanna Lumley, Sir Peter Hall and Melvyn Bragg are just a few of the public figures who argue their views on subjects as wide ranging as Henry VIII, Oswald Mosley, Virginia Woolf, Princess Diana and David and Victoria Beckham. Matthew Parris's stimulating introduction shows how caricature and portraiture combine to illuminate all sides of an individual's character. As a sketch writer for The Times who has anchored his career in making people laugh at politicians, he appreciates the humor of caricature but exposes how merciless and critical it can be.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Sandy Nairne
Hung by Scarfe	10	(10)
Gerald Scarfe
Warts and All	20	(8)
Matthew Parris
A-Z of Heroes & Villains
Richard Arkwright	28	(3)
Adam Hart-Davis
Jenny Uglow
John Logie Baird	31	(3)
Ian Rankin
Craig Brown
The Beatles	34	(3)
Hunter Davies
Robert Elms
David and Victoria Beckham	37	(3)
A.A. Gill
Rachel Johnson
George Best	40	(4)
Joanna Lumley
Harold Evans
William Blake	44	(2)
Joanna MacGregor
Anthony O'Hear
Richard Branson	46	(4)
Harold Evans
John Kay
Agatha Christie	50	(4)
P.D. James
Ian Rankin
Winston Churchill	54	(2)
Gerald Kaufman
Peter Hall
Oliver Cromwell	56	(3)
Owen Dudley Edwards
Norman Tebbit
Charles Darwin	59	(3)
Richard Dawkins
Peter Bowler
Diana, Princess of Wales	62	(4)
Bill Deedes
Beatrix Campbell
Elizabeth I	66	(4)
Fiona Reynolds
Michael Rosen
Tracey Emin	70	(4)
Lynn Barber
Thelma Holt
Rosalind Franklin	74	(2)
Julia Neuberger
Lewis Wolpert
Kenneth Grahame	76	(3)
Shirley Hughes
Julia Eccleshare
Graham Greene	79	(3)
Stephen Bayley
Wallace Arnold
Henry VIII	82	(4)
Alison Weir
Melvyn Bragg
William Hogarth	86	(3)
Jenny Uglow
David Solkin
Ken Livingstone	89	(3)
John Carvel
Alexandra Shulman
David Lloyd George	92	(3)
Gytes Brandreth
Bill Deedes
Oswald Mosley	95	(3)
Diana Mosley
Ranulph Fiennes
Isaac Newton	98	(2)
Melvyn Bragg
A.A. Gill
George Orwell	100	(4)
Simon Schama
Sean Matthews
Emmeline Pankhurst	104	(4)
Lucy Moore
Martin Pugh
Prince Charles	108	(4)
Prue Leith
Lynn Barber
Richard III	112	(3)
Thelma Holt
Jeremy Ashbee
John Ruskin	115	(3)
Tristram Hunt
Stephen Bayley
Robert Falcon Scott	118	(2)
Ranulph Fiennes
Lucy Moore
William Shakespeare	120	(4)
Michael Rosen
Owen Dudley Edwards
Adam Smith	124	(2)
John Kay
Peter Wilby
Delia Smith	126	(2)
Mo Mowlam
Gytes Brandreth
Margaret Thatcher	128	(4)
Charles Moore
Gerald Kaufman
Oscar Wilde	132	(4)
Peter Hall
Josh Lacey
Virginia Woolf	136	(4)
Jeanette Winterson
Theodore Dalrymple
Biographies & Appendices
Biographies of Subjects	140	(8)
Biographies of Contributors	148	(5)
List of Plates	153	(2)
Selected Reading	155	(3)
Index	158	(2)
Acknowledgements	160