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Artful Breakdowns : The Comics of Art Spiegelman
Title
Artful Breakdowns : The Comics of Art Spiegelman / Georgiana Banita, Lee Konstantinou.
ISBN
9781496837554
9781496837509
9781496837516
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (322 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beinecke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick S. Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited volume tracing Art Spiegelman's exceptional trajectory from underground rebellion to mainstream success, Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman reveals his key role in the rise of comics as an art form and of the cartoonist as artist. The collection grapples with Spiegelman's astonishing versatility, from his irreverent underground strips, influential avant-garde magazine RAW, the expressionist style of the comics classic Maus, the illustrations to the Jazz Age poem "The Wild Party," and his response to the September 11 terrorist attacks to his iconic cover art for the New Yorker, his children's books, and various cross-media collaborations. The twelve chapters cut across Spiegelman's career to document continuities and ruptures that the intense focus on Maus has obscured, yielding an array of original readings. Spiegelman's predilection for collage, improvisation, and the potent protest of silence shows his allegiance to modernist art. His cultural critique and anticapitalist, antimilitary positions shed light on his vocal public persona, while his deft intertextual strategies of mixing media archives, from comics to photography and film, amplify the poignance of his works. Developing new approaches to Spiegelman's comics-such as the publication history of Maus, the history of immigration and xenophobia, and the cartoonist's elevation of children's comics-the collection leaves no doubt that despite the accolades his accessible comics have garnered, we have yet to grasp the full range of Spiegelman's achievements in the realm of comics and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
The Tom Inge series on comics artists
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: up from the underground: Art Spiegelman and the elevation of comics / Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou
Modernist disruptions: Art Spiegelman as experimenter, editor and critic / Shawn Gilmore
A ragpicker's art: Spiegelman's jazz cosmopolitanism / Ariela Freedman
The modern void: Art Spiegelman's aesthetics of silence / Georgiana Banita
Exploding stereotypes: Spiegelman and transgression / Philip Smith
RAW radicals: Art Spiegelman's comic politics / Sarah Hamblin
Art Spiegelman and 9/11 / Kent Worcester
Provisional equanimity: citation and solace in Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers" / Patrick Lawrence
Of mice and masks: photography as masking in Art Spiegelman's "Maus" / Liza Futerman
Art imitating life: traumatic affect in Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and Holocaust cinema / Harriet Earle
Who published "Maus"? / Colin Beineke
Ellis Island art: Art Spiegelman's place in the history of immigration comics / Cara Koehler
Art Spiegelman's Faustian bargain: TOON books and the invention of comics for kids / Lee Konstantinou
Appendix: Art Spiegelman's primary works
About the contributors
Index.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Comics criticism.
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