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klweber2

An Interview with Omar Khouri | Qifa Nabki - 0 views

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arab art satire cartoon interview

shared by klweber2 on 09 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • politics
  • equated with war.
  • my refusal to engage in any political act or discussion was in itself a political statement.
  • ...14 more annotations...
  • censorship and the separation of religion from the state,
  • political figures in this context, juxtaposed with the other subjects in this series,
  • depoliticize their image and highlight the human aspect of their nature
  • personalities that one can connect with on a more basic level regardless of their political views.
  • French comics master Moebius,
  • English comics author Alan Moore, whose masterpiece Watchmen blew my mind wide open to the idea that comics could be as powerful and insightful as any other art form when dealing with the depths of the human soul;
  • shatter the boundaries of my imagination to this day.
  • freedoms of painting.
  • ivision between Media Arts and the Higher Arts.
  • comics were not only children’s entertainment,
  • Another very difficult obstacle is censorship.
  • extreme conservatism of the surrounding countries
  • Arab art
  • very positive side effect of a horrible situation,
  • klweber2 on 09 Nov 14
     
    An interview with Omar Khouri, a political artist/cartoonist. The interview goes in depth of what Khouri mainly draws/paints and where his inspirations come from. 
klweber2

Mana Neyestani reflects in 'An Iranian Metamorphosis' : Columbia Journalism Review - 0 views

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iranian cartoon media

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  • best-known political cartoonists,
  • was jailed in 2006 for a comic
  • Neyestani and his editor ended up in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison.
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • he fled.
  • Iranian government coerces its press
  • “I was just waiting for my destiny to happen to me.”
  • “The whole point of life is coping with this destiny and trying to change it,”
  • klweber2 on 10 Nov 14
     
    This is an article from the Columbia Journalism Review discussing about a popular illustrator Mana Neyestani. In the article, Neyestani talks about his career in Iran as a comic illustrator and how it landed him in jail. This correlates to the issues that are currently happening in Egypt  
ijones3

Who's afraid of Art? - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...icturing-egypts-next-president

Sisi

shared by ijones3 on 11 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • ijones3 on 11 Apr 15
     
    This article shows and explains a number of street artists views, murals, political cartoons and internet memes. This is one of the newer articles I have read because the backlash is centered mainly on Sisi and not Mubarek or the art from 2011 and Tahrir square.
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