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Caricature

Work portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)

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Work portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)

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Indexing Annotation

This heading is used as a Publication Type. Caricatures as a subject are indexed under the main heading CARICATURES AS TOPIC. Publication Type CARTOON is also available. INDEXER: Do not use

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History Note

2008(1997)

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  1. V01.185w.500w
  2. V02.700.074w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Caricature. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019492. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019492
  2. Caricature. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature
  3. Caricature. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q482919