1/ I had the misfortune a few months ago of watching an HBO doc on the famed political cartoonist Herbert block. This got me thinking about the nature of political cartooning in general...now obviously this being HBO, it's was a celebration of another tired beltway/ny hack..
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12/ of political cartoonists operate within and promote the preferred discourses and ideologies of the cathedral apparatus. Political cartoons that fall outside the Overton window never work or are effective, they don't have the backing of the mainstream, they are memes at best..pic.twitter.com/c4sxl9nJqO
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13/ ditto for Ben garrison... notice the word "effective", is art effective on a deeper level? Good art is (well unless you are Kant, and art should be disinterested beauty, that's another thread)..but political cartoons are effective in a different way..pic.twitter.com/P2AvAQmu8y
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14/ they are "effective" in a purely utilitarian and operational way, the way clickbait headlines are effective, designed to pull in the viewer and in a lot of cases denigrating the political subject matter because they create mockeries, simplified metaphors and memes, in short..
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15/ propaganda and nothing else. So at lest imo, political cartoonists of all stripes are not "real artists", as pretentious as that sounds.pic.twitter.com/fWlK6Go85k
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apparatus, a visual replicator of ideology that lacks the profound insight of a real artist, but only possesses a vile "cleverness" by juxtaposing image