Cartoons: imagery and controversy (original) (raw)

2006

Abstract

In March 2006 Otago Polytechnic School of Art held a seminar on the conflicts around the publication by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. A lecturer in Design Studies was invited to speak from a Middle Eastern perspective and a lecturer in Art Theory and History at the School of Art was invited to respond from a Western perspective. The conflict that provoked this discussion arose from a surprisingly naive request for an illustrator to illustrate a book explaining the Muslim faith to Danish children. The fact that illustrators were reluctant to work on this project was publicised and characterised as 'self-censorship' by Flemming Rose of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He responded by commissioning artists to create images which did represent Mohammad on the grounds that this would enable the newspaper to demonstrate that it stood for the principles of freedom of speech. The cartoons were published in Denmark and slowly di...

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