Artful Breakdowns

Artful Breakdowns
Author: Georgiana Banita
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2023-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496837525

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Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick 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.


Artful Breakdowns
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Georgiana Banita
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-02 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, P
Breakdowns
Language: en
Pages: 78
Authors: Art Spiegelman
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-07 - Publisher: Pantheon

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The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form ... and how it formed him! This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!,
Artful Breakdowns
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Georgiana Banita
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-02 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Robert C. Harvey
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Language: en
Pages: 658
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