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A Scottish master of caricature
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JOHN KAY: A SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS AND ETCHINGS introduced by Alan Bell Birlinn, Edinburgh, two volumes in slipcase, £200, pp. 976, ISBN 9781841586571
If, in Victorian Britain, you did not fall in with the oppressive religiosity that prevailed, you were in danger of becoming a pariah, like Charles Bradlaugh in politics and T. H. Huxley in science.
If, in 20th-century Britain, you did not subscribe to abstract expressionism, Dada urinals, Pop Art, Op Art, minimalism, 'i...
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