Abstract
How do you picture history? Conventional visual images from the past portray their subjects in an ostensibly realistic manner, but others convey more personal messages from the artist. Such messages may be coded, or transmitted with brutal directness. Individual people, events and places are transformed into stereotypes and metaphors to provide comment on more general social or political situations, usually with strong overtones of parody, protest or subversion. The subjects are to varying degrees remodelled to form caricatures, which range from the comical to the repulsive. Such images are often supplementary to or indeed directly linked with verbal images in the novels, plays, poems and pamphlets of the times and, to this extent, the visual and the verbal cannot be separated. Both provide valuable commentary on the historical contexts in which they are set.
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