IRONIMUS ou l’art d’éclairer par l’image

Caricature is often considered the epitome of a distorting image. But this does not take into account the way it derives force from simplification, or its instructive and pedagogical dimension. The cartoons the Austrian caricaturist IRONIMUS (Gustav Peichl) drew for the press over nearly 60 years of...

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Main Author: Valérie de Daran
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg 2016-12-01
Series:Recherches Germaniques
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rg/319
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Summary:Caricature is often considered the epitome of a distorting image. But this does not take into account the way it derives force from simplification, or its instructive and pedagogical dimension. The cartoons the Austrian caricaturist IRONIMUS (Gustav Peichl) drew for the press over nearly 60 years offer a particularly illuminating survey of political life under the Second Republic. With humour and bonhomie, they represent the main events of Austrian history after 1945 in a sober and distanced analysis.
ISSN:0399-1989
2649-860X