It shouldn't have been, for Ms. Hefner sought to present both serious and satirical choreographic images of women and she found much to praise and censure.

That look has been expertly appropriated by Diesel, a huge jeans company that markets itself with satirical images.

The official art traditions were even being questioned in the newspapers though satirical images which implied it was a dying craft.

Soon after, Hogarth published his second series of satirical and moralistic images, A Rake's Progress, followed some years later by Marriage à-la-mode.

Typical is Wang Guangyi's satirical image of Mao, overlaid by a thick red grid as if he were behind bars.

In the 1850s Punch magazine frequently printed satirical images of crossing sweepers, depicting "each one [as] a nuisance of modern life."

Several satirical images of Fidel Castro are on view, both in the Biennial and in simultaneous independent exhibitions.

His bitterly satirical, passionately clearsighted and brilliantly composed images, which appeared on book covers and left-wing magazines, are among this century's greatest examples of political art.

Their anger was also directed at some artists Ms. Golden favors, among them Kara Walker, whose potent wall pieces include satirical images of slaves.

He doesn't appear to play an important role in the novel apart from being a satirical image.