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Further Reading

H. B. Cott, Adaptive Coloration in Animals, 1940. The standard account of mimicry in nature.

Abram Games, Over My Shoulder, Studio Books, 1960. Games's own account of his working practices.

E. H. Gombrich, Art & Illusion, Phaidon, 1960. Gombrich's studies of representation cover many aspects of the parallels between expressiveness in nature and art. Art & Illusion has a chapter on caricature, from which Les Poires comes.

E. H. Gombrich,The Image & the Eye, Phaidon, 1982. This companion volume to Art and Illusion has Gombrich's explicit statement of the connection between mimicry in nature and expressive art: of the Eyed Hawkmoth he says,'They represent, if you like, the expressionist side of nature'.

E. H. Gombrich, Topics of Our Time, Phaidon, 1991. The third of Gombrich's books relevant to this subject, Topics of our Time includes a chapter on Abram Games's animistic posters and also Saul Steinberg's witty drawings.

Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart, A Smile in the Mind, Phaidon, 1998. The classic account of witty thinking in graphic design.

PS. Nothing to do with visual puns but check out the Penguin Books site for Scanning the Century by the author of this site, also The Poetry Society for Poetry Review magazine, edited by the author.