IF LOU’S CARICATURES COULD DUMP ON TRUMP
What would Hitler, Groucho, Kennedy and Castro say about Donald Trump?
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Trump-less Hirshman: The Politics of the Artist
Would Lou Hirshman, were he still alive today, have ever done a caricature of Donald J. Trump? The answer is no. For at least three reasons. 1) Too easy: Although the 45th president of the US is (or was?) ripe for caricaturizing, Hirshman would undoubtedly have already considered Trump a caricature of himself – artificially […]
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Louis in the Sky with Diamonds: LOU and LSD
A flagpole penis. A shrink’s couch in a pocket. A haloed spider. Did LSD lead Lou Hirshman to abandon caricaturizing the famous? Was his second period a psychedelic trip? Did he make high art or “high” art? In this FICTIONAL, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK story, Hirshman swims with dolphins to the other side of the other ocean.
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OF GROUCHO, THE HUMERUS AND A PENIS
In this second Posthumous Interview, more than 30 years after Lou Hirshman’s death, the irreverent comedian Groucho Marx – the subject of one of Hirshman’s finest pieces parodying one of filmdom’s funniest entertainers – comes to life as he banters his way through the artist’s take on humor. Groucho’s quirky quips meet Hirshman’s witty art. […]
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