Oct. 24, 2024 Neville Chamberlain, in the top hat, urges the waiter “feed them full so they’ll leave us alone.” The waiter is carrying Czechoslovakia on a platter and preparing to serve it to the four salivating dogs in the foreground representing (from left): Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, and Hirohito. This Soviet publication accuses Britain of abetting the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in a cowardly and naïve effort to appease what were ultimately insatiable imperialist forces. The following is the third in a series of inside looks at the current exhibition in Princeton University Library's Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library - “Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary.”“Monsters & Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary” examines the global use of bestiary in visual satire during the period from the beginning of World War I through the end of the Cold War. The exhibition is curated by a team of PUL librarians: Thomas Keenan, Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian; Lidia Santarelli, (formerly) Metadata Librarian, Modern Greek Specialty; Deborah Schlein, Near Eastern Studies Librarian; and Alain St. Pierre, Librarian for History, History of Science, and African Studies.Images of a variety of mammals are regularly used to represent specific forms of moral grotesquerie. Canine images often represent mindless ferocity and a slavish subservience to a master – the pack mentality and blind devotion to the alpha. Porcine figures are used to represent conservative, light-skinned European imperialism, with pigs displaying immoderate appetites and a slothful, gluttonous wallowing in the filth of ill-gotten excess. These images are aimed at a variety of imperialist, colonialist, and socially conservative targets, here Nazis, capitalists, and their enforcers. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________The exhibition is open and free to the public during Milberg Gallery hours of operation, September 12 through December 8, 2024.Discover more through the accompanying digital exhibit.Media Contact: Stephanie Oster, Library Publicity Manager