The Art of Lunacy
In the following essay, the critic examines Charles Addams's work as a satirical artist highlighting societal neuroses, noting the release of his collection Drawn and Quartered.
Readers of The New Yorker … know Artist Charles Addams as a tireless illustrator of the now commonplace question: Is the world going insane?… He cares not who makes a civilization's laws so long as he can draw its neuroses. Last week Artist Addams' screwy drawings were collected for the first time in book form (Drawn and Quartered …).
"The Art of Lunacy," in Time, Vol. XL, No. 19, November 9, 1942, p. 48.
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