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Word: insectarium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unattached Eyeballs. Grandville's favorite creatures were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: More than a Caricaturist | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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