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The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces
Contributor(s): Groensteen, Thierry (Author), Miller, Ann (Translator)
ISBN: 1496808029     ISBN-13: 9781496808028
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE:   $108.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 741.59
LCCN: 2017018214
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.25 lbs) 252 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties (Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies (The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties (Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), and nineties (Epileptic by David B.). Then this remarkable critic, scholar, and author of The System of Comics and Comics and Narration delves into recent masterpieces, such as Building Stories by Chris Ware.

Each of these books created an opening, achieved a breakthrough, offered a new narrative model, or took up an emerging tendency and perfected it. Groensteen recaptures the impact with which these works, each in its own way, broke with what had gone before. He regards comics as an expanding art, not only because groundbreaking works such as these are increasing in number, but also because it is an art that has only gradually become aware of its considerable potential and is unceasingly opening up new expressive terrain.

Contributor Bio(s): Groensteen, Thierry: - Thierry Groensteen is a comics scholar and translator in Brussels, Belgium. He is author of La bande dessinée: Une littérature graphique and La construction de la cage, among other books.Miller, Ann: - Ann Miller, Oxford, United Kingdom, is a University Fellow in French at University of Leicester in Leicester, England. She has published widely on French-language comics.