*Call for Papers*
*Art of Critique, Craft of Knowing: Caricature and Anthropology*
Panel at the conference *Art, Materiality and Representation<https://therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation/><https://therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation/call-for-papers>* (Royal Anthropological Institute; British Museum; SOAS), June 2018
*Deadline: 8 January 2018*
Short abstract:
Caricatures are a peculiar genre. They jump back and forth between art and news, humor and politics, satire and propaganda, provoke intense reactions. But who produces them and how? With a focus on this question, we aim to reflect on caricatures/caricaturists in terms of power, knowledge, and craft.
Long abstract:
Political caricatures and cartoons are peculiar genres of graphic representation. They jump back and forth between art and news, humor and politics, satire and propaganda, and they can provoke intense emotional reactions. But what happens before caricatures unfold their power? Who produces them and how? With a focus on this question, we aim to reflect on caricatures and caricaturists in terms of power, knowledge, and craft.
a) Considering the potential effects of caricatures (from international acclaim to imprisonment), how do graphic artists negotiate this power? How do caricaturists and cartoonists learn the 'art of critique' near the 'tipping point' of the political? b) As a means of artistic expression and social/political comment, caricatures can be considered a mode of seeing and knowing the world. They oscillate between similarity and estrangement, condensation and simplification, and all of this in a field of symbolic ambiguity. What does this tell us about the artists' knowing and producing knowledge about world? c) The craft of caricaturing demands we take seriously the technical knowledge and skills necessary to manipulate paint and paper, color and canvas, pixels and printers. How do caricaturists learn and practice that? How do the material conditions of caricaturing reflect the power and knowledge channeled through these pictures?
In the end, arguably, a close look at the practice of caricaturing can help us reflect on our own practice of anthropology, a rather peculiar genre of social science. We invite proposals addressing these questions and more, with a focus on any region.
Convenor: Mirco Göpfert (Konstanz)
For more details, please see the panel website: https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6111
Please propose a paper via the online Platform accessible via the conference website. Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters and an abstract of 250 words.
I'm very much looking forward to this!
All the best
Mirco Göpfert
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University of Konstanz | Department of History and Sociology | Division of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Box 38 | 78457 Konstanz, Germany
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