Reflections of the East and the West in the golden age of caricature

In his review of the monograph by A.G. Golikov and I.S. Rybachenok, «Pencil and Pen – Tools of Political Caricature» (Moscow: Pero, 2024, 338 pages), the author emphasizes that this work offers valuable educational potential, providing those studying the history of the press, magazine satire, foreign policy and diplomacy, as well as the problems of visually semantizing the images of «us», «other» and «foreign» with a reliable analytical toolkit. Key historical events, viewed by the authors through the prism of satire, allow not only to reconstruct the political context of the time but also to identify certain patterns in their perception by contemporaries, including journalists. It is noted that the work has educational potential, since attention to caricature helps to acquire intellectual and emotional sensitivity to the visual source as a whole, improving the understanding of the satirical drawing as a carrier of several layers of historical perception.