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Dr. Seuss
The Manly Art of Self Defense
The Manly Art of Self Defense is clearly one of Dr. Seuss’s appropriately satiric works in the vein of I’d Love to go to the Party, but I’m Absolutely Dead. Revealing his “gentlemanly” side, Ted Geisel portrays the cultured expression of masculinity, which is acquired through a balanced regimen of intellectual and physical muscularity. The wonderfully erudite expression on the boy’s face suggests “the manly art of self defense,” while the cat’s look of surprise suggests the boy is out of his mind. Seuss’s take on boxing places it squarely as a “noble art” rather than a martial art.
13.5x20 Limited Edition Hand-Pulled Lithograph
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