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Bruce Petty, born in 1929 at Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, is one of Australia's best known political satirists and cartoonists.〔(Bruce Petty Profile ), The Age, accessed 13 September 2008〕 He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-association of links between various ideas, people and institutions. ''Age'' journalist Martin Flanagan wrote that Petty "re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways."〔 ==Work== Petty began working for the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1949, before moving to the UK in 1954. His cartoons were published in ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'' and ''Punch''. On his return to Australia in 1961, he worked at first for ''The (Sydney) Daily Mirror'', ''The Bulletin'' and ''The Australian'' before joining ''The Age'' in 1976. In 1976, the animated film ''Leisure'', of which he was the director, won an Academy Award for the producer Suzanne Baker (the first Australian woman to win an Oscar). "When I got it, the Oscar went to the producer. We got a picture of it, a very nice gold-framed picture." (''The Age'', 22 June 2004) He has made a number of other award-winning animated films including "Art", "Australian History", "Hearts and Minds" and "Karl Marx". Bruce has also created a number of "machine sculptures" with the most famous being a piece known as "Man Environment Machine" (fondly known as the "Petty Machine") that was a feature piece of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo '85 at Tsukuba, Japan. In 2007, he received the AFI Best Documentary Director prize for the documentary ''Global Haywire'' which he wrote, directed and animated, as well as the Best Documentary Sound prize ; this documentary tries to unravel the global pattern that leads to an understanding of how the world came to be as it is today, and is based on interviews with intellectuals, students and journalists. Bruce's 2008 book, ''Petty's Parallel Worlds'', is a retrospective collection of editorial cartoons from 1959 to the present, street sketches done on assignment around the world, and etchings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Petty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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