Caricature as a Creative Work for Its Creator and Viewer / Karikatūra Kaip Kūrybinis Darbas Jo Kūrėjui Ir Suvokėjui

Abstract

Nowadays we can witness a tendency where the visual replaces the verbal. Humour experiences the same: its visual expression -caricature -is a visual metaphor that already has taken its remarkable place in the field of humour. Caricatures have become a distorting mirror that show deformed but still fairly presented reality. Humour is important part of our everyday life's communication and it covers many spheres of people's life, even including marketing, politics, work relationships, etc. That is why caricatures became a remarkable tool, for example, in political contentions. This article will show what it takes to create this distorting mirror from one side and to see a reflection in it and accept it from the other side.

The Soviet Image of the USA in Latvian Satirical Journalism of the 1960s: Textual and Visual Code

“…Research is mainly based on the content analysis of periodicals (ìGailisî [The Rooster], ìLietuvÁnsî [The Night-Hag], ìSvariî [The Scales], ìV‚rdot‚jsî [The Charmer], ìVÁrot‚jsî [The Observer], ìZibensî [The Lightning], etc.) and data from quantitative surveys, with special emphasis on Latvian national codes, as well as on history of Latvian ñ Russian and Latvian ñ German relations, while in the practical part of the publications the diachronic approach is mainly employed (GailÓte 2013;Gajlite 2011;ZaËa 2012 et al).…”

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“…Research is mainly based on the content analysis of periodicals (ìGailisî [The Rooster], ìLietuvÁnsî [The Night-Hag], ìSvariî [The Scales], ìV‚rdot‚jsî [The Charmer], ìVÁrot‚jsî [The Observer], ìZibensî [The Lightning], etc.) and data from quantitative surveys, with special emphasis on Latvian national codes, as well as on history of Latvian ñ Russian and Latvian ñ German relations, while in the practical part of the publications the diachronic approach is mainly employed (GailÓte 2013;Gajlite 2011;ZaËa 2012 et al).…”