ABSTRACT
In this chapter I turn from broad theoretical questions about recognition and the challenge of caricatures, to consider caricatures themselves. What are their essential features? Can they reveal character as well as capturing a likeness? How do they differ from cartoons? I also examine the crucial role of norms in making caricatures. In the section on Caricatures in Art and Psychology I discuss how faces are a problem for artists, who want to capture a likeness, as well as for psychologists, who want to understand how we solve the homogeneity problem, and I suggest that the power of caricatures may illuminate both problems. Finally, I chart the progress of caricaturing from the Italian Renaissance to the computer age.
