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“This struggle will not be won by arms” – A legacy of Charlie Hebdo (Dangerous Drawings)
Nicht übersetzt: In February 2006 “Charlie Hebdo” was among the few papers, which avowed “Je suis Jyllands-Posten” and courageously decided to reprint the excommunicated Muhammad cartoons of the Danish journal. A month later the cartoon magazine published the much disputed manifest of twelve noted writers against Islamism, among them Salman Rushdie and Philippe Val, the […]
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“They drew first” – Graphic Comments on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre (Dangerous Drawings)
Charb in Charlie Hebdo, 7.1.2015 “The Power of Cartoons” by Tjeerd Royaards (Source: Cartoon Movement) David Pope: He drew first, 8.1.2015 (Source: Hellou.co.uk ) Steve Bell on the Charlie Hebdo attack (Source: The Guardian) Banksy, 8.1.2015 ( source: Meedia)
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The Charlie Hebdo Massacre: 12 dead at Paris offices of the legendary satirical magazine (Dangerous Drawings)
The caricaturists Stéphane Charbonnie aka Charb, Jean Cabut aka Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac aka Tignous are among those numberless victims of a rising Islamic totalitarism. The new theocratic fascism has struck the culture of enlightenment at its traditional artistic core. Chief editor Charb after the petrol bomb attack on November 2011 Georges Wolinski […]
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Denkt an Horthy! Die interventionistische Kunst von Mihály Biró.
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Turning Points. The Twentieth Century through 1914, 1939, 1989 and 2004“ in der Ungarischen Nationalgalerie Budapest ist das Melton Prior Institut mit einer umfangreichen Installation vertreten. Das Arrangement „Gondolj Horthyra / Think about Horthy,” mit der die Ausstellung zur wendungsreichen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel Ungarns eingeleitet wird, konfrontiert zwei […]
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John Thomas Smith und die Erfindung investigativer Sozialreportage II: Republikanische Paläste
-3) Republikanische Paläste -4) Exkurs I: Blakes Cottage 3) Republikanische Paläste Remarks on Rural Scenery ist Smith’ kürzeste Publikation. Sie besteht aus einer Folge von zwanzig Radierungen, die alle „nach der Natur“ entstanden sind. Dargestellt sind ganz unterschiedliche Ausprägungen von ländlichen Armenbehausungen an der Peripherie der explodierenden Metropole London. Die Abbildungen sind mit möglichst präzisen […]
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John Thomas Smith und die Erfindung investigativer Sozialreportage I: Wirkliche Ansichten
– 1) Einleitung – 2) Wirkliche Ansichten 1) Einleitung Die Anfänge investigativer Sozialreportage sucht man üblicherweise in der viktorianischen Epoche, in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts, die die Gründerzeit des tagespolitischen Illustriertenwesens waren. Damals fanden die extremen gesellschaftlichen Verwerfungen, die durch die industrielle Revolution hervorgerufen waren, ihren Niederschlag in der Herausbildung eines organisierten Klassenbewusstseins. […]
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Jan Vegter´s art of processing memory. A biographical sketch.
Nicht übersetzt: Jan Vegter was born March 29, 1927, in Voorburg (The Netherlands). He died there in 2009. Almost his entire life he lived in this small town near The Hague. Jan got his education as an artist at the Royal Academy at The Hague from 1945 till 1950. One of his teachers was Willem […]
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“The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti´s Eye.” A postcolonial Melton Prior novel by Manu Herbstein. A review.
Nicht übersetzt: Special artist Melton Prior plays a leading role in a new novel by distinguished South African writer Manu Herbstein. Composed in the form of a fictitious diary, the historical background of the adventurous story is provided by the second campaign of the British Empire against the powerful Asante nation, located in the regions […]
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“Elegant and dignified military operations in the present age.” – The imperfect invisibility of collateral damage in late 19th-century metropolitan illustrated magazines.
Nicht übersetzt: Adapted (05/2014) with permission from the chapter of the same title: p. 205-232 of Stephen J. Rockel and Rick Halpern (ed.s) Inventing Collateral damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire Between the Lines Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009. ISBN 978-1-897071-12-0 This paper discusses some evidence of how overseas imperialism looked to imperialists at home, […]
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The Dilemma of Drawing
Nicht übersetzt: Jan Sundström has worked for 40 years as a director and producer at The Swedish Television Company (SVT). He did all kinds of productions – from art documentaries to multi-camera productions for sports events to entertainments. After his retirement he replaced the camera with the pen and started a column in a local […]