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Eric Joliffe

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Eric Joliffe
« on: July 28, 2018, 11:23:12 AM »

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I'm glad to see Joliffe's work here. He was an excellent artist as you can see. He was also prolific and turned out several of these a year for quite a time period. Australia is rivaling Canada for politically correctness right now and this would now be considered Racist and Sexist. In its day, ( 50's to 70's) it was considered no such thing. If the characters were White, the humor would be seen as on a par with many of the situation comedies of the day. (The voluptuousness of his females also counts against him these days.) In any case, the women get the better of the men most of the time. Personally, I think he was very observant of human behavior (as a good comedian has to be) but in retrospect I am really impressed by his landscapes. He traveled around Australia but spend a lot of time in the area (Central West NSW) where I now live, and which is currently undergoing severe drought, which he often drew. I now appreciate how accurate he was in depicting the world he saw. I think we have to judge creative work by the standards and the context of the day in which it was created. I think we may be losing the ability to have a good laugh.
["In many of his Aboriginal cartoons the joke depends on the incongruity of the Indigenous Australian
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Re: Eric Joliffe
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2018, 03:49:39 AM »

This reminded me to some extent of James Swinnerton's Canyon Kiddies. I do believe both came from a sincerely warm humanitarian place and no harm is intended, but it is clearly patronizing in that the humor is derived from anothers' culture through European settlers' lenses.
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