Drawing Blood: Forty-Five Years of Scarfe Uncensored.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Drawing Blood: Forty-five Years of Scarfe Uncensored GERALD SCARFE. Little, Brown, $55 (352p) ISBN 0-316-72952-3

British satirist Scarfe is a master of the caricaturist's art of breaking down a subject's physical elements and rebuilding them in a stylized manner to portray the subject with a slant. Chronicling his long and storied career, this volume confirms that no person or subject, from 1960s icons like the Beatles right up through Eminem and George W. Bush, is off limits to Scarfe's shockingly revealing distortions. Grotesquely exaggerated (especially when depicting the sex organs), Scarfe's drawing style at first brings to mind the tripped-out work of Ralph …