Art And Wit
News of a course on cartoon art from Birkbeck College, London :
ART AND WIT, OR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CARTOON
Dates: Mon 29 Sep to Mon 8 Dec 2008 (11 meetings)
Time: Mon, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Venue: Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
Fee: 150 (75 concessions)
Lecturer: Dr Kasia Murawska-Muthesius
Witty, irreverent and insulting, editorial cartoons of today have a long pedigree, reaching back to medieval allegories, to the fierce political prints of the Reformation and the French Revolution, as well as to exaggerated portraits of the eighteenth century nobility.
Deemed as a mass medium, newspaper cartoons might be surprisingly difficult to understand, especially once their time is over. Not only do they require a thorough study of people and events featured, but also a familiarity with a wide range of the cartoonists techniques, such as meaningful quotations, distortions and witty juxtapositions. This course will look at the ways in which cartoons, past and present, have communicated with their viewers, involving not only images but also words in the production of meaning, and often promising rebellion while maintaining the status quo.
Themes of the classes include:
Caricatures and cartoons by James Gillray, Honore Daumier, Boris Efimov, Saul Steinberg, Bernard Partridge and Steve Bell.
Cartoon-making and class, gender, race.
Satirical magazines: Punch, Simplicissimus, Krokodil, The New Yorker.
Graphic novels by Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi and contemporary British authors.
Freedom of speech versus gratuitous offence and the Danish cartoons controversy.
A full course syllabus is available on request from John Lugo at j.lugo@bbk.ac.uk .
To enrol in person: visit us at the central enrolment facility on the ground floor, 26 Russell Square.
To enrol on-line: please visit our enrolment website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/prospective/certs/enrol/ce.
ART AND WIT, OR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CARTOON
Dates: Mon 29 Sep to Mon 8 Dec 2008 (11 meetings)
Time: Mon, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Venue: Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
Fee: 150 (75 concessions)
Lecturer: Dr Kasia Murawska-Muthesius
Witty, irreverent and insulting, editorial cartoons of today have a long pedigree, reaching back to medieval allegories, to the fierce political prints of the Reformation and the French Revolution, as well as to exaggerated portraits of the eighteenth century nobility.
Deemed as a mass medium, newspaper cartoons might be surprisingly difficult to understand, especially once their time is over. Not only do they require a thorough study of people and events featured, but also a familiarity with a wide range of the cartoonists techniques, such as meaningful quotations, distortions and witty juxtapositions. This course will look at the ways in which cartoons, past and present, have communicated with their viewers, involving not only images but also words in the production of meaning, and often promising rebellion while maintaining the status quo.
Themes of the classes include:
Caricatures and cartoons by James Gillray, Honore Daumier, Boris Efimov, Saul Steinberg, Bernard Partridge and Steve Bell.
Cartoon-making and class, gender, race.
Satirical magazines: Punch, Simplicissimus, Krokodil, The New Yorker.
Graphic novels by Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi and contemporary British authors.
Freedom of speech versus gratuitous offence and the Danish cartoons controversy.
A full course syllabus is available on request from John Lugo at j.lugo@bbk.ac.uk .
To enrol in person: visit us at the central enrolment facility on the ground floor, 26 Russell Square.
To enrol on-line: please visit our enrolment website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/prospective/certs/enrol/ce.
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