{"id":168,"date":"2004-01-05T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2004-01-05T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T08:55:00","slug":"modern-types-by-geoffrey-gorer-illustrated-by-ronald-searle-cresset-press-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/01\/modern-types-by-geoffrey-gorer-illustrated-by-ronald-searle-cresset-press-1955\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Types, by Geoffrey Gorer, illustrated by Ronald Searle. Cresset Press, 1955."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits of British post-war types, from Lady Something to Professor Blank, which originally appeared in <i>Punch<\/i>. I forget how great Searle used to be&#8211;although actually it turns out I was thinking of Ralph Steadman.  Did Searle also not get all spiky and disturbing later? No, but he did start drawing very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/searle_ronald.htm\">debauched-looking cats<\/a>. Anyway, the caricatures in this book are wonderful, although the whole thing leaves rather a depressing flavour. The types are either unhappy or held in contempt by the author. This was a birthday present to my dad when he was 23, one of the books that I rescued from my mother after their divorce&#8211;must see if my dad wants it back. I read it as a teen, and don&#8217;t remember noticing that the portrait of Esm?, the balletomane, is gender-indeterminate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portraits of British post-war types, from Lady Something to Professor Blank, which originally appeared in Punch. I forget how great Searle used to be&#8211;although actually it turns out I was thinking of Ralph Steadman. Did Searle also not get all spiky and disturbing later? No, but he did start drawing very debauched-looking cats. Anyway, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}