The self-promoting playful pen in graphic and literary rhino-caricatures
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Ingrid G. Daemmrich,
Abstract
From ancient times to the present, artists' and authors' creative, critical, and diverting pens have caricatured the human nose. Their amusing games express the power of the artistic imagination to turn their subjects into game pieces by (1) poking fun at their sociopolitical status through exaggerating or diminishing the size and shape of their noses; (2) playing upon hilarious, multifaceted links between their noses, phalluses, and the mocking pen; and (3) building canonical play frames that expand the artists' and authors' ability to mock the sociopolitical competition for power and influence. Though these games at times transgress the boundaries of decorum, they also underscore graphic and verbal caricaturists' self-promotional creativity, as they address the many inequalities in actual and fictive worlds.
©[2012] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- The ancient roots of humor theory
- A festivus for the restivus: Jewish-American comedians respond to Christmas as the national American holiday
- Towards a better understanding of racist and ethnic humor
- The self-promoting playful pen in graphic and literary rhino-caricatures
- Book reviews
