Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores the ways emotion and politics intersect through the work of cartoonist David Low. It investigates how emotions function both as a tool for influencing public political awareness and as a means of constructing journalistic authority. Low positioned himself as an ‘artist-expert’, claiming an ability to interpret politics with insight that transcends the written word, and as ‘objective-artist’, whose clarity of vision stood in contrast to his emotional adversaries. This paper situates Low and his cartoons within broader networks of political meaning-making, where the emotional plays a key role in interpretation and in constructing categories of legitimacy.
Source: Visual Culture in Britain
Author: Amy Matthewson
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: University of Kent
OpenAlex ID: W4416756875