The Caricatures of George Cruikshank:
Weales, Gerald
tion, even when God dealt her a second can be redemptive if one does not further prove "that I am not my own grand- tragic hand in the birth of her fourth add to the waste of...
...by Walter E. Conn...
...How to Grow in Don't get me wrong...
...in Re- Kevin Ranaghan, Ben Kinchlow, the Father's love for all he has ligious Studies, is a freelance writer and oc- Terry Law and others who candidly created...
...time and as close to the heart of century reissue of Scraps and Sketches I Christian faith...
...Did you see Star It provides certain basic perspec- to truth in the biography of the living or tives as well as proven methods for Wars...
...To what extent The fact that Mr...
...of the volunteers have been poor, black Ed...
...Peace is good...
...Mary Craig's third and fourth peared in the 1829 Scraps and Sketches, concentration-camp victims...
...There are pregnancies predated the widespread use almost twenty years before the artist took many books which fulfill those two of amniocentesis, and she apparently was the much publicized pledge...
...7.95, paper biography-that is, it tries to show and right find the military unattractive...
...Summarizes the major color, many are reduced in size from the themes of his spiritual teaching, RUNS DAY with carefully chosen excerpts from original and, in the process of condensa- his sermons, personal journal and tion, details become less distinct than correspondence- revealing a they should be...
...Moreover, in her effort to make belief in God's existence and goodness...
...tors of peace...
...vided "softened images" that "suited sense of suffering, she does not roman- This book also leaves unaddressed the the general turning-away from satiric ticize it-in spite of the title of the book...
...Like Mary Craig we his society grew more genteel after the straightforwardly honest in writing about are quick to question God's existence or dear queen came to the throne, but, as her own reactions-her self pity, her re- God's goodness when tragedy strikes...
...PAUL perience a sea-change...
...Although many of the reA compelling look at the productions are easy to take in with the extraordinary life of John Henry naked eye...
...to ignore is the Celebration $4.95, paper -its author's experience...
...So they volunteer...
...5.95, paper alone art...
...It's the idea of forca bad lover, a bad father, and rather ing people into it that irks him...
...This own name...
...His books include The $3.50 Jumping-Off Place and Clifford Odets...
...photos from their lives and times...
...Professor I Know...
...These, after all, are not man's do- by the opposing sides in the debate over 1820s or the late teens and, although ing...
...opportunity to discover blessings which There were incidental pleasures in the As the mother of a child with a disor- might never be known without the Victoria & Albert show, but it did not der closely related to Hurler's syndrome, tragedy...
...man's life...
...The opportunism of the Damien, Therese of Lisieux, John explanation of what the diffi...
...that covers the years from 1805, when one book the two faces of the most pro- In spite of these understandable lim- the twelve-year-old Cruikshank profound theological problem-the evil that itations, I recommend this book as a pro- duced "The Wonderful Mill" with the is caused by both man's inhumanity to foundly moving human story, an existen- help of this father Isaac, himself a popuman and God's inhumanity to man...
...It is reprotasks...
...Mr...
...Most were forced DIVISION OF THE SOCIETY OF ST...
...more fertile than the convictions of the $3.50 $5.95 older artist...
...A delightful "hang-up" casional lecturer on theological topics...
...He sometimes suggests that the wild and wildly imaginative young George Cruikshank, who did more radiGerald Weales man who had made his name in the raun- cal caricatures than conservative ones is I HAPPENED to be in London in 1974, chy days of the Regency...
...as the gospels...
...The as characteristic of our lives, to take personal responsibility for book is, then, somewhat disappointing it, and hence to feel impelled to physically...
...realize that he's only kidding around The author explores the im- One experiences a malaise at learning plications of the basic principles about it and he needed a catchy way to that liturgy is the self-expression of the details of Groucho's sexual hangups, wrap up his article...
...was inspired by his somnambulent meanderings...
...If the tial investigation of the meaning of suf- lar caricaturist, to 1834, when CruikHolocaust raises the question of how fering, an illustration that all cases of shank had put political caricature behind there can be a God after Auschwitz, "retardation" are not the same, and a him to work as illustrator to other men's every defective child,as well as every real picture of both the value and the work or in the folios published under his earthquake, famine and flood, raises tragedy of a defective human life...
...10314 man will be forgotten...
...What is the relationship of good taste must conquer evil...
...Garvey chooses...
...Evokes an even with the magnifying glass I used to -~ LC awareness of sin, to recognize it study detail in the reproductions...
...Wardroper says, the individual caricaligious doubts, her occasional desires for Why not question God's power...
...It discusses this princi- and being given simplistic popple as applied to past and possible psychological explanations for them...
...Well, Merton, Gustavo Gutierrez and its limits...
...tion, even when God dealt her a second can be redemptive if one does not further prove "that I am not my own grandtragic hand in the birth of her fourth add to the waste of tragedy by missing the father...
...That's less clear...
...The tormented 2187 VICTORY BLVD...
...J. Murray Elwood shortcomings...
...George Cruikshank is not the perfect ex- (Continued from page 482) hibition I long for, but- if you want early milk...
...The black, poor and by John Burke, O. P. and body were giving way...
...the Church...
...putting it alongside the new reproduction emphasizes that the reduction is in power as well as in size...
...discuss how the "voice of the Lord" book for bedroom, classroom, GERALD WEALES is Commonweal's drama has given direction to their lives kitchen or office...
...The Caricatures of Relevant Topics...
...When faced with "the liberal defense that we CONVERSION: chintzy to boot...
...That's the way it should be...
...The moving stories of 10 Thomas Green, SJ a clear eye for the identifying idiosyn- significant Christian heroes and crasy of public figures and willingness to heroines who saw clearly the A real breakthrough in modern message of the gospel in their literature on prayer-prayer find or adapt a controlling idea, whatever beyond the beginnings...
...Could ture print gave way to the illustrated her child's death, her strange mixture of we not entertain the concept of an impo- penny paper in the 1830s and the reprofound relief and grief when the end tent God, in order to preserve humanity's placement of etching by lithography procomes...
...Contrition JOHN' r••IIRIG G1tck Sometimes, as with the greatly reduced Jeffrey Sobosan, CSC print on the 1819 Polar expedition, I A book marked by richness of found it impossible to read the balloons kww~ 4"" meaning and insight...
...Garvey says nothing scripture...
...In the ship"For eucharistically oriented wreck of his old age, children and his "under-educated," on the other hand, churches still waiting to experience are more likely to view the military as an full liturgy of the Word and its companion were battling over the future proper pulpit reflection, this is an estate...
...Reinhold Nevertheless, this book is informaNiebuhr, Karl Rahner, Thomas tive, and fairly well-researched, within doesn't know what that means...
...Joan Hutson John Patrick Grace MARTIN TURNELL's books include The Art 32 enchanting full-color pages, of French Fiction (New Directions...
...In addition, she is Good and Almighty...
...For educated" volunteer, ah-ight, but they posterity, the memory Groucho will ex- didn't volunteer to be poor, black and AN house "under-educated...
...found "The Gin Shop" in full size and $2.95 with cleaner lines...
...The caricatures are well cho- experience contrition...
...It is true that Cruikshank when the Victoria & Albert Museum droper indicates in his informative biog- put himself among the radicals in some of mounted a George Cruikshank show...
...question of the morality of staving off savagery...
...dence of the concerns of their time beTU CARICATURES OF GEORGE Devoted primarily to Cruikshank's later cause they had to appeal to their audiCRURSRAIIE work, the show embodied Cruikshank as ences and that most of them worked less John Wardroper eminent Victorian, a teetotaling ser- from conviction than from market deGodine, $30 1144 pp.] monizer who has come a long way from mands...
...But readers and preachers...
...AVE MARIA PRESS ndi Indiana 46556 14 September 1979: 507 vides useful commentary that not only sets the caricatures in historical context Correspondence but directs the eye to details that a casual reader might miss...
...4.95, paper should discretion prevail over telling a about who decides which leaders get LITURGY IN PARISH LIFE: story "like it is...
...It is not simply that the artist and exaggerated...
...But Mary Craig left unad- have the cumulative effect that an exhibI can testify that Mary Craig's account of dressed the question of whether we can ition of Cruikshank's early work would her experience with her child are not continue to believe in a God who is both have...
...But what made him a Perspectives on Personal and great comic...
...Wardroper suggests at one point, in his disSermonising & satiric savagery cussion of Isaac Cruikshank, that the English caricaturists are the best evihad stumbled into a temperance meeting...
...Garvey's "inother outstanding Christian telligent" (i.e...
...critic and a professor of drama at The Univer- $1.95 sity of Pennsylvania...
...Bosco and others, with dramatic culties and consequences of young Ctuikshank proved a great deal advanced prayer are all about...
...Available at your bookstore, or STEVEN PHILD KRAMER teaches history at the University of New Mexico...
...And good sharing easier and more rewarding...
...So they don't volunteer...
...Garvey and his intelligent STEVEN PHILIP KRAMER freedom-fighters know that picking up Commonweal: 508...
...As John War- an exception...
...That's not need (draft) registration because so many Social Transformation clarified...
...Arce tells us that Groucho was the military, really...
...The best of Cruikshank's Mary Craig's book is unique, not be- suffering by aborting a fetus with a gene- temperance prints-by which I mean the cause it tells of a mother's experiences tic disorder or by refusing life-saving one most venemous in idea and with two retarded children or because of surgery for a mentally abnormal new- imagery-is "The Gin Shop" which apthe stories it presents of the lives of born...
...or the comic genre piece, the emphasis is on Cruikshank's political cartoons...
...The loss is particularly obvious in those Act caricatures in which there is a great deal of Cition Act of of writing and a wealth of visual asides...
...what Mr...
...child, a victim of Down's syndrome...
...white, educated, upthinkers consider the spiritual, which Groucho dwelled, and recreates theological and pastoral aspects of the people he knew...
...sen, however, Bind Wardroper, who is $2.95 comfortable with the politics, the social customs, the slang of the period, pro- q REVIEWERS I Think...
...No What troubles me is this...
...It is not surprising that the book's escape from the ugly realities of their important ministerial tool for structure and emphasis are affected by civilian existence...
...into this condition by circumstance of STATEN ISLAND, N.Y...
...They don't see a hitch humping a cannon Groucho as all too human...
...In a late nineteenth- spirituality as fresh as spring...
...Hackenbush and Spaulding will become the real Groucho...
...I wonder if Arty Bremmer did...
...and ministries...
...and 'under-educated'," he says he Bernard Lonergan...
...Emeritus at Columbia University, is now at Voice work on a kind of autobiography...
...raphical introduction to The Caricatures the prints for' conservative shops, but I Drawn to the exhibition by what I re- of George Cruikshank, the artist lived so can see no difference in intensity (premembered of his work-illustrations for long (1792-1878) and became such a cel- sumed conviction) between his biting atDickens's Boz, those foolishly playful ebrated figure that, when he exhibited tacks on the Regent and "The Belle Aland punning contributions to his own The Triumph of Bacchus in 1863, he sur- liance" (1819), an ugly portrait of the Comic Almanack, a few of his political rounded-that now almost forgotten paint- reformers, created at about the time he caricatures-I was startled to find that I ing with a portfolio of his early work to was elsewhere emphasizing the horror of Commonweal: 506 the Peterloo Massacre...
...Blessings is unique because it im- given no option for the surgery needed by duced in The Caricatures, a selection plicitly brings into focus in one life and in her fourth son...
...The Caricatures of George Cruikshank, as a whole, has the force that I found missing at the Victoria & Albert...
...GOSPEL POWER: Arce researched the book and saw in the dead of a West German winter as a Toward the Revitalization step up...
...In his mock future liturgical reform, and il- man is a hero to his valet, but few valets solution, he accepts the need for force...
...what respect for life requires in the way there are some examples of social satire Mary Craig discovered that suffering of individual moral choices...
...But I don't think that Mr...
...Cruikshank Ten Christians comes across as a man whose virtues are When the Well artistic not political, a caricaturist with a Boaiface Henley, OFM By their deeds you shall know Runs Dry marvelous sense of bawdy grotesquerie, them...
...lustrates the pastoral implications He has no quarrel with the existence of as applied to each of the Church's would appreciate heroism anyway, let main liturgies...
...He isn't concerned with the cessation of war, but, rather, with its BIBLE SHARING: In brief administration...
...FALL 1979 Kindly Light The book, as exhibit, does have Rev...
...Hearing His ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS...
...Perhaps the only criter- creamed for their misdeeds or who deion is whether unpleasant revelations are A Study of Worship and the needed to understand the meaning of a fines a misdeed or who hires or who gets Celebrating Community to be the assassin doesn't bother me, I by Fred Krause, O.F.M., Cap...
...tougher questions about the existence of paradoxical complexity is often missed Most of the caricatures come from the God...
...They of Preaching Groucho at a time when Groucho's mind have better options...
...arriving at the total meaning of recently deceased...
...It's a popular wardly mobile or rich) young of the left conversion...
...I saw the part the Mystery of Christ where he had the big-shots getting by John Burke, O. P. GROUCHO, by Hector Arce, Putnam, This is a very practical attempt to creamed for their misdeeds by the protecmake the challenging task of Bible $14.95, 541 pp...
...some of them in attractive vYi J k Newman...
...A the cause, which best puts these talents lives-Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Calcutta, Maximilian Kolbe, refreshingly uncomplicated on display...
...Personal interviews with Father images and thoughts from a Francis MacNutt, Oral Roberts, child's world that speak to us of MARJORIE REILEY MAGUIRE, a Ph.D...
...Garvey Respected Authors...
...Yet, in the end, what matters most about an artist is not fact that the poor, black and "underhow he lives, but what he creates...
...Cruikshank-it is the only one in town...
...It establishes the milieux in what it means is that Mr...
Vol. 106 • September 1979 • No. 16
