Showcasing the rich diversity of art made beyond the mainstream over the centuries. Beautifully illustrating an array of exceptional objects from throughout the UK, from monumental trade signs and carvings,embroideriesquilts, ships' figureheads, collagespaintings, this book provides an illuminating [...]

Comic Art - art that gains its effect through visual humour, caricature, exaggeration and slapstick, whether in print, reproduction or through the moving image - has long helped shape and inform British culture. This entertaining and irreverent history aims to present a wide-screen vision of comic a[...]