The Origins of Comics

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Название: The Origins of Comics

Издатель: University Press of Mississippi

Автор: Thierry Smolderen (Author), Bart Beaty (Author, Translator), Nick Nguyen (Author, Translator)

Год: March 25, 2014

Страниц: 174

Формат: pdf

Язык: English

Размер: 29 mb

ISBN: 978-1-61703-909-6

Качество: хорошее

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The Origins of Comics

In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition.

His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. mirknig.com

Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Doré, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. mirknig.com

Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture.

In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. mirknig.com

This study remaps the history of this influential art form.