"Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of a practice known as "Salon caricature," a practice that flourished in the Parisian illustrated press in the second half of the nineteenth century. Salon caricaturists, art critics …
"Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of a practice known as "Salon caricature," a practice that flourished in the Parisian illustrated press in the second half of the nineteenth century. Salon caricaturists, art critics …
"From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua help…
"From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua help…
"From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua help…
"From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua help…
Humour and Laughter in History
Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the curre…
Die wichtige Rolle der Mitarbeitenden der Anstalten und Gefängnisse für die Qualität des Justizvollzugs ist unbestritten. Dennoch ist diese Berufsgruppe wenig sichtbar. Dem will die erste von einem Forschungsteam der Universität Freiburg i.Ü. realisierte und vom Schweizerischen …
Long description: Humour can be used as a>>weapon<<or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic e…