Forty years of 'Spy'

A first-person memoir traces an artist's upbringing in a long line of artistic relatives, schooling, and early experiments, then moves through friendships and encounters within artistic and literary circles. It recounts theatrical and social episodes, travels, exhibitions, and technical anecdotes about practice, and describes the gradual shaping of a professional career producing satirical portraiture. Organized chronologically into anecdotal chapters, the narrative blends personal memory, character sketches of contemporaries, and reflections on artistic methods and the social world that framed the author's work.