William Feaver – Caricature

William Feaver looks at body language and facial expression in terms of glamour, lampoon and ridicule and portrait conventions besides. William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer, is also a painter and has been the curator of exhibitions ranging from George Cruikshank to the Tate retrospectives of Michael Andrews and Lucian Freud (subject of his most recent book) and Constable (Grand Palais Paris 2003). His book Pitmen Painters was adapted by Lee Hall for an award-laden play and he subsequently organised a related exhibition in Vienna. His other publications include Masters of Caricature and When We Were Young, a study of children’s book illustration which did particularly well in Japan.