Issue 3 (64)
| LOWBROW HUMOR IN THE CARTOONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: RETHINKING THE IMAGES OF WAR BY YOUNG ARTISTS’ DRAWINGS | |||
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| Year | 2019 | Number | 3(64) |
| Pages | 75-83 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(470)“1914/1918” | BBK | 63.3(2)53 |
| Authors | Golubinov Yaroslav A. Zherdeva Yulia A. |
Topic | THE MILITARY CONFLICTS OF THE MORDEN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY IN THE OPTICS OF THE COMICAL |
| Summary | The original unpublished satirical graphics of the First World War, unlike mass printed graphics, are not very familiar to researchers, since these materials are dispersed in various museum collections and their studying is fraught with many difficulties. The article analyzes a unique historical source — a collection of watercolor caricatures of the Samara Regional Art Museum, significant in size and representative in content. The artists were the students of the Stroganov School in Moscow with peasant and “raznochintsy” origin. They made watercolor caricatures under the impression of the events of the First World War. Not only did their pictures resonate with propaganda prints, posters, newspaper and magazine cartoons of the time, but contained new interpretations of propaganda plots. Based on the analysis of archival information about young artists, their social status, as well as on the comparison of the images with well-known print graphics, the authors categorize the collection’s watercolors as amateur drawings, free from canons and conventions of published cartoons, and designate a number of topics (circus, puppet theater, scatological theme), which got an unusual interpretation by artists. The collection is revealed as a case of an atypical connection of various cultural practices of depicting and ridiculing Russia’s opponents during the First World War. The artistic specificity of the drawings is connected with the appeal of young artists to the archaic layers of culture and the search for their own pictorial manner. | ||
| Keywords | First World War, graphics, museum collection, caricature, mentality, children’s drawing | ||
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