Satirical Cartoons: A History - Martin Rowson

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
  • How do cartoons and visual satire operate?
    This lecture will look at when humans first created art and at the dawn of satire.
    Examining the work of Swift, Hogarth, Gillray, David Low and Ronald Searle, this lecture by celebrated cartoonist Martin Rowson will also examine the role cartoons play in giving offence. Covering the Danish Cartoons scandal and the Charlie Hebdo massacre, this talk will also look at Martin Rowson's own cartoon output over the past 40 years.
    This lecture was recorded by Martin Rowson on 25th January 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London
    Martin is a multi-award winning cartoonist, writer, illustrator, ranter, performer and poet.
    His work over the past 40 years has appeared in almost every publication you can think of apart from Private Eye and The Sun.
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Komentáře • 45

  • @nordicmind
    @nordicmind Před 7 měsíci +18

    It is refreshing that someone communicates their lecture in a "spontaneous" and communicative way rather than reading it dryly from a transcript!

    • @simonbode7356
      @simonbode7356 Před 7 měsíci +1

      He is reading from notes on his iPad.

  • @richjohnston
    @richjohnston Před 7 měsíci +13

    Saw this in the flesh, very happy to revisit.

  • @maxheadrom3088
    @maxheadrom3088 Před 7 měsíci +12

    I'm on minute seven and this lecture is already wonderful!

  • @henric1991
    @henric1991 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Well done Martin, lovely presentation!

  • @d.c.8828
    @d.c.8828 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Splendid presentation and historical lesson!

  • @luck484
    @luck484 Před 7 měsíci +3

    This is fun and interesting. Cartoons are art. Art is a way to express a point of view that is not tolerable otherwise.

  • @gogfather6432
    @gogfather6432 Před 3 měsíci

    Saw this live last week. Absolutely brilliant!

  • @gw7120
    @gw7120 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Please can someone do timestamps on the videos ! For topics within the talk it would be nice.

  • @josetrindade3550
    @josetrindade3550 Před 7 měsíci +2

    This is a great lecture!

  • @someoneelse293
    @someoneelse293 Před 7 měsíci +1

    The" dust heaps" are from "our mutual friend" not "dombey and son"

  • @mitsunori222000
    @mitsunori222000 Před 7 měsíci +5

    Self promotion, interesting nonetheless.

    • @MrDavey2010
      @MrDavey2010 Před 6 měsíci

      Exactly. I found it totally repulsive. Not the subject matter but the presenter.

  • @MrDavey2010
    @MrDavey2010 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I thought initially that this was going to be excellent but was disappointed mightily quickly. The speaker lost me as his manner of delivery was so aggressively arrogant. His language is so unpleasant too.

  • @briandempsey5749
    @briandempsey5749 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I'm actually too busy ... well, so am I

  • @transvestosaurus878
    @transvestosaurus878 Před 6 měsíci +1

    He talks the way his cartoons look XD

  • @araucariapasquale1
    @araucariapasquale1 Před 7 měsíci +6

    How impossibly garrulous. It is so distracting for those of us who do not lose interest if information is simply communicated, not performed to within an inch of its life.

  • @jonathonjubb6626
    @jonathonjubb6626 Před 7 měsíci +1

    So, nothing much has changed since Walpole then...
    And does Tory come from Pirate?

    • @aarondavis8943
      @aarondavis8943 Před 6 měsíci +3

      I believe _tory_ is an old Gaelic word for "cattle thieves".

  • @carstenf279
    @carstenf279 Před 5 měsíci

    57:40 I beg to differ. There are no empoverished immigrants in Denmark (When comparing to UK) In fact - an unemployed Danish immigrant does a lot better than an empoverished UK immigrant with two jobs.

  • @ThomasBoyd-yf5wm
    @ThomasBoyd-yf5wm Před 7 měsíci +1

    Awesome. Brilliant lecturer British history politics global audience in USA New York city and Europe reat of the Word

  • @sandyago4735
    @sandyago4735 Před 6 měsíci

    11:50 We should be against the Geneva Convention.

  • @roycspary8923
    @roycspary8923 Před 7 měsíci

    you got hit by a politician for a cartoon? OK in my mind that explains why Dahl [who I know well owning some of his books] saw you as an equal and getting hit proves just how well observed your cartoon was bravo. welcome to my personal pantheon of heros.

  • @nedludd7622
    @nedludd7622 Před 7 měsíci +3

    This is only a history of satirical cartoons in Britain. There is a long history of them in France for example. The there is the US. In fact, countries around the world.

    • @d.c.8828
      @d.c.8828 Před 7 měsíci +3

      He does touch on French political cartoons a little bit while also covering American-related content, but considering he is quite obviously English, it would make sense for him to focus on the subject with which he is most familiar, no?

    • @d.c.8828
      @d.c.8828 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ...Especially considering the setting in which this lecture takes place (Gresham College, London, England, U.K.).

    • @calmeilles
      @calmeilles Před 7 měsíci +7

      Martin's speaking of that which he knows. It's a restraint many others should be encouraged in.

  • @ZeroTheHeroGOAT
    @ZeroTheHeroGOAT Před 7 měsíci +4

    I agree, Boris Johnson isn't funny. Neither is this guy, though....

  • @joejohnson6327
    @joejohnson6327 Před 6 měsíci

    Danish Muslims don't live in dire poverty. 🙄

  • @MarvinMonroe
    @MarvinMonroe Před 7 měsíci +1

    I am VERY OFFENDED it's 2024 and this is NOT OKAY

  • @jonr6680
    @jonr6680 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Clickbait title, a HISTORY??
    This is nothing more than an ego-maniac given the floor to exhibit his own smart-a$$ery.
    Deeply uncomfortable watching self-justification and teflon shoulders, trying to seem morally superior and at the same time not culpable.
    While blaming everyone else for their attitudes.
    What a piece of work. But I guess he gets paid either way.
    Is there also a book out?

    • @squareinsquare2078
      @squareinsquare2078 Před 7 měsíci +3

      He gets paid more than you. And, of course, he's made his place in history, something you and I will never do.

    • @jasongray4517
      @jasongray4517 Před 7 měsíci

      Typical satirist: Merchant Taylors School and Cambridge University. A posh radical who affects to despise the establishment that he's very much a part of.

    • @richjohnston
      @richjohnston Před 7 měsíci +5

      All cartoonists are ego maniacs. At least he is smart.

  • @markgould9322
    @markgould9322 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Put your call to action right at the beginning of the video or the end a little bit in is just annoying, distracting and shows a level of disrespect to both your audience and the lecture you've just interrupted.

  • @jasongray4517
    @jasongray4517 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Ah, the fella who's fond of antisemitic tropes.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Před 7 měsíci +10

      Ah, the guy who finds "antisemitism" everywhere.

    • @jasongray4517
      @jasongray4517 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@nedludd7622 Mainly in the Guardian, for which Rowson apologised. Posh radicals are often blissfully unaware of their own antisemitism. Remind you of anyone?

    • @richjohnston
      @richjohnston Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@jasongray4517 so "fond" is probably wrong. He talks about that incident here.

    • @cliveb9771
      @cliveb9771 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@richjohnstoncalling it an “incident” is very euphemistic. He drew an antisemitic cartoon. He issued a grovelling apology for it. The newspaper withdrew it and apologised. You can easily look at it online, it’s absolutely unarguably antisemitic.

    • @jasongray4517
      @jasongray4517 Před 7 měsíci

      @@cliveb9771 It is unquestionably antisemitic, as have been many of Steve Bell's cartoons. The Guardian has a taste for antisemitism, despite its claims to the contrary.