Satirical Cartoon as a Critical Statement in the Democratic Debate. The Case of Charlie Hebdo Cover Image

Karykatura jako wypowiedź krytyczna w demokratycznej debacie. Przypadek „Charlie Hebdo”
Satirical Cartoon as a Critical Statement in the Democratic Debate. The Case of Charlie Hebdo

Author(s): Barbara Białek
Subject(s): Politics, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Political Theory, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: satirical cartoon;freedom of speech;iconoclasm;avant-garde art;democracy;politics;islam;

Summary/Abstract: The article points the problem of the role of artists and political cartoon in initiating a discourse within the dispute about the freedom of speech and forms of the contemporary democracy in the culturally and politically diversified Europe. It exposes the critical potential of satirical cartoon in its political variation. The avant-garde aspect of breaking the old conventions in the Islamic art, burdened with a religion-based ban on depicting, resulting, however, in a new form of iconoclasm.

  • Issue Year: 44/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-54
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish