"Canadian readers have enjoyed their own graphic satire since colonial times and Canadian artists have thrived as they took aim at the central issues and figures of their age. Graphic satire, a combination of humorous drawing and text that usually involves caricature, is a way of taking an ethi...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Hardy, Dominic 1960- (HerausgeberIn), Gérin, Annie 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Carney, Lora Senechal 1948- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press [2018]
Schriftenreihe:	McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1840-1940 Karikatur Kanada Editorial cartoons / Canada / History / 19th century Editorial cartoons / Canada / History / 20th century Satire in art Caricatures and cartoons / Canada / History / 19th century Caricatures and cartoons / Canada / History / 20th century Caricatures and cartoons Canada Caricatures et dessins humouristiques / Canada / 19e siècle Caricatures et dessins humouristiques / Canada / 20e siècle Humour par l'image canadien / Aspect politique Humour par l'image canadien 1800-1999 History
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Zusammenfassung:	"Canadian readers have enjoyed their own graphic satire since colonial times and Canadian artists have thrived as they took aim at the central issues and figures of their age. Graphic satire, a combination of humorous drawing and text that usually involves caricature, is a way of taking an ethical stand about contemporary politics and society. First appearing in short-lived illustrated weeklies in Montreal, Quebec City, and Toronto in the 1840s, usually as unsigned copies of engravings from European magazines, the genre spread quickly as skilled local illustrators, engravers, painters, and sculptors joined the teams of publishers and writers who sought to shape public opinion and public policy. A detailed account of of Canadian graphic satire, Sketches from an Unquiet Country looks at a century bookended by the aftermath of the 1837-38 Rebellions and Canada's entry into the Second World War. As fully fledged artist-commentators, Canadian cartoonists were sometimes gently ironic, but they were just as often caustic and violent in the pursuit of a point of view. This volume shows a country where conflicts crop up between linguistic and religious communities, a country often resistant to social and political change for women, and open to the cross-currents of anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fascism that flared across Europe and North America in the early twentieth century. Drawing on new scholarship by researchers working in art history, material culture, and communications studies, Sketches from an Unquiet Country follows the fortunes of some of the artists and satiric themes that were prevalent in the centres of Canadian publishing."--
Beschreibung:	viii, 304 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:	9780773553408 9780773553415