More Drawings

Dover Publications [Published date: 1962]. Paper covers, 104 pp. [Excerpt from back cover] This is another collection of the graphic, vivid sketches of Heinrich Kley, one of the most diabolically talented cartoonists of our century. This collection includes all the sketches from Kley's two books, LEUT'UNO VIECHER (1912) and SAMMEL-ALBUM (1923), except those which have already appeared in the previous Dover collection, THE DRAWINGS OF HEINRICH KLEY ($1.85). Kley's best drawings appeared during the first quarter of this century. Bizarre, mercilessly iconoclastic, they tore apart the fabric of life in the new century, emphasizing the untenabitity of time-honored assumptions. Many people were shocked by Kley's drawings, many laughed at them-but not many were able to ignore them. The sketches take in every aspect of human life: nothing is too sacred for him to no one too eminent for him to satirize. His jibes were aimed at the church, at marriage, at fashionable ladies and pompous gentlemen, at clothes and customs and character traits. The overall subject, as with most outstanding satirists, is the of the human condition. Hence the repeated occurrence of elephants, apes horses, etc, in human poses, or the spectacle of humans caught in ridiculous situations and grotesque positions.