Saturday, August 26, 2017

Mischa Richter: Waiting for the Evidence

Original cartoon art by Mischa Richter for a 1987 New Yorker cartoon raises the issue of just when skepticism becomes unhealthy. Now, thirty years later, skepticism has become denial and more deniers than ever are pretending the evidence has yet to come in!

"Then we've agreed that all the evidence isn't in, and that even if all
the evidence were in, it still wouldn't be definitive."
Mischa Richter
Original art
The New Yorker, 
June 15, 1987, page 30

"Then we've agreed that all the evidence isn't in, and that even if all
the evidence were in, it still wouldn't be definitive."
Mischa Richter

The New Yorker, June 15, 1987, page 30

Mischa Richter
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"Then we've agreed that all the evidence isn't in, and that even if all
the evidence were in, it still wouldn't be definitive."
Mischa Richter
Original art
The New Yorker, 
June 15, 1987, page 30

Drawings by Mischa Richter and Tom Cheney
The New Yorker, 
June 15, 1987, pages 30-31


Note:  Still skeptical about whether New Yorker cartoons are fine art? Then Attempted Bloggery clearly needs more evidence to make the case. Please send along scans and photographs of original cartoon art by Mischa Richter or other New Yorker artists. Do you have the definitive New Yorker masterpiece that can convince the doubters? Of course you don't; nothing can convince the doubters.


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