Comic Abstraction

Comic Abstraction
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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 0870707094
ISBN-13 : 9780870707094
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Comic Abstraction by : Roxana Marcoci

Download or read book Comic Abstraction written by Roxana Marcoci and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. Text by Roxana Marcoci.

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein
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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780847868681
ISBN-13 : 0847868680
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Roy Lichtenstein by : Elizabeth Finch

Download or read book Roy Lichtenstein written by Elizabeth Finch and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy before he was Lichtenstein: the path to becoming a Pop Art titan began with Lichtenstein's cycling through a provocative range of visual culture, from fairy tales and children's and folk art to mythic forms of Americana, such as cowboys and Disney. Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 is the first major museum exhibition to investigate the early work of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Co-organized by Colby College Museum of Art and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the exhibition will include approximately ninety works from the artist's fruitful and formative early career, many never before seen by the public. The show and accompanying catalog will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints which reveal an artist, even in the earliest stages of his career, with a keen interest in visual culture, culling--with a critical eye--from a wide range of sources. These inspirations were the essential but little-known precursors to the artist's later sourcing of comic books and advertisements. Likewise, his exploration of abstraction, just before the artist's abrupt turn to Pop Art in 1961, straddles the line between unabashed lyricism and wry critique of second-generation Abstract Expressionism. The catalog, with new scholarship by leading experts in the field, provides a new understanding of Lichtenstein's influential techniques of appropriation and offers the opportunity to more fully assess the artistic and cultural dynamism of postwar America.

Dementia 21

Dementia 21
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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781683961062
ISBN-13 : 1683961064
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dementia 21 by : Shintaro Kago

Download or read book Dementia 21 written by Shintaro Kago and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yukie Sakai is a sprightly young home health aide eager to help her elderly clients. But what seems like a straightforward job quickly turns into a series of increasingly surreal and bizarre adventures that put Yukie’s wits to the test! Cartoonist Kago, who is well known for combining a more traditional manga style with hyper realistic illustration technique, an experimental visual storytelling approach, and outrageously sexual and scatological subject matter, has single-handedly created his own genre: “fashionable paranoia."

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780060976255
ISBN-13 : 006097625X
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Understanding Comics by : Scott McCloud

Download or read book Understanding Comics written by Scott McCloud and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Rachel Rising

Rachel Rising
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1892597519
ISBN-13 : 9781892597519
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rachel Rising by : Terry Moore

Download or read book Rachel Rising written by Terry Moore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel wakes up at sunrise on a shallow grave in the woods and discovers the freshly murdered body in the dirt is her own.

Caricature and National Character

Caricature and National Character
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9780271089904
ISBN-13 : 0271089903
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Caricature and National Character by : Christopher J. Gilbert

Download or read book Caricature and National Character written by Christopher J. Gilbert and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity. Tracing the comic representation of American values from the First World War to the War on Terror, Gilbert explores the power of humor in caricature to expose both the folly in jingoistic virtues and the sometimes-strange fortune in nationalistic vices. He examines the artwork of four exemplary American cartoonists—James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to craft a trenchant image of Americanism. These examinations animate the rhetorical, and indeed comic, force of icons like Uncle Sam, national symbols like the American Eagle, political stooges like President Donald J. Trump, and more, as well as the power of political cartoons to comment on issues of race, class, and gender on the home front. Throughout, Gilbert portrays a US culture rooted in and riven by ideas of manifest destiny, patriotism, and democracy for all, yet plagued by ugly forms of nationalism, misogyny, racism, and violence. Rich with examples of hilarious and masterfully drawn caricatures from a diverse range of creators, this unflinching look at the evolution of our conflicted national character illustrates how American cartoonists use farce, mockery, and wit to put national character in the comic looking glass.

The Comics of Chris Ware

The Comics of Chris Ware
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781604734461
ISBN-13 : 1604734469
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Comics of Chris Ware by : David M. Ball

Download or read book The Comics of Chris Ware written by David M. Ball and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Jacob Brogan, Isaac Cates, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Shawn Gilmore, Matt Godbey, Jeet Heer, Martha B. Kuhlman, Katherine Roeder, Peter R. Sattler, Marc Singer, Benjamin Widiss, and Daniel Worden The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre-defining Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ware has received numerous accolades from both the literary and comics establishment. This collection addresses the range of Ware's work from his earliest drawings in the 1990s in The ACME Novelty Library and his acclaimed Jimmy Corrigan, to his most recent works-in-progress, “Building Stories” and “Rusty Brown.”