Nablus – Together – The researcher, Professor Maryam Al-Masry, confirms in the aim of her book that: the art of caricature and media agree in performing their missions in educating society about the various problems it is experiencing and the crises, whether political, religious, economic…etc. The goal of the media is intertwined with the goal of the art of caricature in that the media works to introduce the issues and problems of the era, and how to address and deal with these issues, for the purpose of enlightenment, education, and dissemination of news and information that suit people’s minds, thus raising their level, and spreading their cooperation with a particular regime in order to interest of that system.
The Egyptian researcher adds that the media caricature depends on the rhetorical image as expressive shifts that affect the recipient. Because it carries suggestive charges with its phrases, colors, lines, and shapes. As the image forms a space open to all interpretations, it is based on temptation and seduction, which is done by generating connotations. It makes the recipient decode it by placing it in a systematic, cognitive, cultural network, relying on his interpretive competence and ability.
The researcher divided the book’s semiotic stations into three chapters, in addition to an introduction to the topic. In the introduction, she presented the emergence of the art of caricature and its development, which included talking about the rooting of art in historical identity, the concept of caricature art, the emergence of caricature art, the relationship of caricature to digital media, and the recipient’s interaction with the semantic genes of caricature art. .
In the first chapter, Al-Masry monitored the cultural references in the image of the caricature, especially the references: religious, literary, popular (heritage), historical, and technical. These references constitute linguistic genes that contribute to monitoring the semantic foci and demonstrating the beauty of stylistic intertextuality between a present text and an absent (implicit) text of the image. ; The relationship between verbal and linguistic texts contributes to creating semantic genes that blend with the visual space of the caricature. Because the relationship between texts is based on absorption and modification to serve the idea of ??their creator, and the study reveals the symbolic genes that are created in the space of caricature images embodied by a dissolved (absent) text indicated by the clusters of the symbolic image and linking that to the context of the present reality with a past reality seen by the recipient of the image.
The Egyptian researcher devoted the second chapter to the manifestations of women’s presence in digital caricature images as a symbol that expresses resistance, steadfastness, and steadfastness. To reveal the six fields that were distributed among the study’s sections. The first section monitors the social field, the second section: the political (national) field, the third section: the religious field, the fourth section: the historical field, the fifth section: the educational field, and the sixth section: the humorous field. Because women’s issues have become an important motivation and spark.
To defend her based on the inferiority and negative view directed at her in our Arab societies, and the discrimination of men in these societies from women in many different aspects of life, educational, religious, social, and others; Women are exposed to several problems that they may face in their society, such as bullying, harassment, violence, and the marriage of underage girls.
In the third chapter, I examined a group of symbols used in caricature images. It shows a number of symbolic icons common to the space of images contained in his ten topics, which are: the snake, the milk bottle, the sea, the pen, flowers and roses, toys, the Ramadan crescent, the map of Palestine, the key, and the clock as symbols built on aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual foundations that indicate… To a specific content, and its special impact on the way meaning is produced within different caricatures, the symbol is one of the important pillars on which the caricature is built, and its ability to influence its recipient. To understand its visual and linguistic signs; To catch its semantic clusters.
Source: Maan News Agency
