title: Making Faces: Memoirs of a Caricaturist
author:  Aline Fruhauf 
description: Fruhauf's caricatures most often exhibit a puckish charm, as in her sketches of Harpo Marx, Andres Segovia and Maurice Ravel. But her pen can be devastating as well: Martha Graham's self-preoccupation and George Gershwin's brio and ambition have rarely been captured so well. Her pictures are occasionally profound: portraits of Igor Stavinsky and Aldous Huxleyreveal a witty, dark caricaturist who can claim to be heir to a tradition that extends from Goya to Picasso. Peppered with reproductions of her sketches for Vanity Fair, Musical America, Vogue and New York dailies, this gracefully written memoir limns a determined woman who penetrated the worlds of fashion, music, art and theater to create images that "talked back" to her, and that speak to us. (October <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Davis
  
  
  There was a time in screen culture when the facial close-up was a spectacular
  and mysterious
  
  
  THE F A CE
  
  
  image…
  
  
  The constant bombardment of the super-enlarged,
  
  
  computer-enhanced faces of advertising, the
  
  
  ON THE SCREEN
  
  
  endless ‘talking heads’ of television and the ever-changing array of film
  stars’ faces have reduced the face to a banal image. The dream of early film
  theorists that the ‘giant severed heads’ of the
  
  
  DEA TH,
  
  
  screen could reveal ‘the soul of man’ to the
  
  
  masses is long since dead. And yet the death of
  
  
  this dream opens up the possibility for a different THE F
  
  
  RECOGNITION &
  
  
  view of the face on the screen. This book aims to seize the opportunity to
  rethink the facial close-up Therese Davis is a
  
  
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  in terms other than those associated with the
  
  
  lecturer of film and
  
  
  CE ON THE SCREEN
  
  
  humanist view of the face as ‘mirror of the soul’.
  
  