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Drawing on a lively selection of satirical prints and material from the University of Aberdeen's Special Collections.
The exhibition is accompanied by an engaging series of talks that expand on the themes of the exhibition. Andrew MacGregor, Deputy Archivist with the Special Collections Centre will deliver an engaging talk on Thursday 14 November 2013, between 6pm and 7pm, at the Sir Duncan Rice Library at the University of Aberdeen. In the 19th century satirist and publisher William Hone (1780 – 1842), and caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank (1792 – 1878), started a publishing phenomenon of radical pamphlets, ingenious in their use of parody.
The satires were based upon a parody of other forms of printing and publishing from children’s books to advertisements and also by appropriating official mediums and language such as used in sacred texts, legal documents and banknotes. The influence of the pamphlets will be analysed and illustrated alongside current examples of parody that owe a gratitude to the work of Hone and Cruikshank.
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- Speaker
- Andrew MacGregor, Deputy Archivist, Special Collections Centre
- Hosted by
- Special Collections Centre
- Venue
- Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room, The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
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