In a single wartime picture, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in one other, a gun-toting gangster. Later, he seems outdated and dejected, overdue for retirement. The cartoons, on present in a brand new exhibition on the Imperial Struggle Museum London, present a large number of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in numerous nations and at completely different instances, from 1909 onwards. “There was by no means a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “A number of the depictions had been closely essential and even grotesque”, whereas others “depict his decided nature and painting him as a British figurehead”. Clements hopes the exhibition will “add one other layer to our guests’ understanding of this advanced particular person” and present “how satirical cartoons performed a component in shaping perceptions of Churchill throughout his lifetime and past”.
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