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He wrote not for white or middle-class audiences, but for the strivers, hustlers and quiet sufferers whose struggles he sought to capture in searing works.He…
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He was a groundbreaking master of the visual pun, part of a generation of designers for whom the aesthetic was in service to the idea.He…
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