![]() ![]() 31 and pairs 15 Herblock editorial cartoons with 24 works from others whose art responded to major political and humanitarian issues from the 17th century to the modern day, all pulled from the library’s collection. “Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times” opens on Jan. Now his rich body of work, which also touched on civil rights, the environment and war, is getting new life alongside work from other politically minded artists at a new exhibition at the Library of Congress. Before his death in 2001, Herbert Lawrence Block, the political cartoonist better known as Herblock, spent his decades-long career calling out corruption and hypocrisy at the hands of world leaders in his witty work for The Washington Post, winning three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the process. ![]()
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