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Sketches from an Unquiet Country, Volume 24 - Canadian Graphic Satire, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
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Sketches from an Unquiet Country, Volume 24 - Canadian Graphic Satire, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
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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 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
communication 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.
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