The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496808029 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has held a number of prestigious positions over the years: editor of Les Cahiers de la bande Dessinée; director of the comics museum housed in the Cité international de la bande dessinée et de l’image in Angoulême, where he is now a project director and curator; editor in chief of 9ème Art; founder and editor of a comics collection for Actes Sud and lecturer on the comics masters course at the École européenne supérieure de l’image in Angoulême.Ann Miller, Oxford, United Kingdom, is Universit
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.. Groensteen recaptures the impact with which these works, each in its own way, broke with what had gone before. 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 ni
He has held a number of prestigious positions over the years: editor of Les Cahiers de la bande Dessinée; director of the comics museum housed in the Cité international de la bande dessinée et de l’image in Angoulême, where he is now a project director and curator; editor in chief of 9ème Art; founder and editor of a comics collection for Actes Sud and