Hoover Library and Archives Present "Sharply Drawn: The Political Cartoons of Louis Raemaekers: 1914-1941".STANFORD, Calif. -- Political cartooning has always been fraught fraught adj. 1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama. 2. with controversy and even danger; today's cartoonists are not the first to have their work condemned con·demn tr.v. con·demned, con·demn·ing, con·demns 1. To express strong disapproval of: condemned the needless waste of food. 2. . During World War I, Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers-called the Great Cartoonist of the Great War-was nearly put on trial by his government for his scathing anti-German political cartoons, which it feared would jeopardize jeop·ard·ize tr.v. jeop·ard·ized, jeop·ard·iz·ing, jeop·ard·izes To expose to loss or injury; imperil. See Synonyms at endanger. Dutch neutrality. The impact of his work was felt around the world. In 1917, President Theodore Roosevelt was quoted as saying, "The cartoons of Louis Raemaekers Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. constitute the most powerful of the honorable contributions made by neutrals to the cause of civilization in the World War." The Hoover Library and Archives are presenting an exhibition of the political cartoons of Raemaekers beginning on Tuesday, February 6, titled "Sharply Drawn: The Political Cartoons of Louis Raemaekers: 1914-1941." The exhibit features more than one hundred of Raemaekers's original works spanning his remarkable career. Notable in his work, said exhibit curator Kyra Bowling, "is the ability of a single image to be accessible and moving enough to evoke e·voke tr.v. e·voked, e·vok·ing, e·vokes 1. To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust. 2. reactions across many cultures." Raemaekers's early work was of a pastoral nature, but the advent of World War I changed his focus. After observing firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first the atrocities committed by Germans, Raemaekers turned his attention, and that of the world, to the war through his drawings. Although Raemaekers began his work in Europe, his cartoons were eventually picked up by Hearst newspapers; by October 1917, more than two thousand newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic were printing his drawings on a regular basis. The exhibit opens to the public on Tuesday, February 6, and runs through Saturday, May 5, in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, next to Hoover Tower Hoover Tower (called HooTow by contraction-happy students) is a 285-foot structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. The tower is part of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a research center founded by former U.S. , and is free of charge. Pavilion hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information contact 650-723-3563. Note: Images of his work are available upon request. |
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