Gustave Doré

Twelve Comic Strips

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2015
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-62846-216-6 (ISBN)

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Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Doré has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Doré himself repudiated his early work, and similarly critics and biographers have given short shrift to his beginnings as a caricaturist. These caricatures are herein rescued entirely for the first time in English by the renowned comics scholar David Kunzle. Doré's caricature is known to a few specialists, but virtually no one has pointed out that his mastery of the comic strip particularly marks him as an entirely original figure in the post-Töpffer era of revolutionary, mid-century France. Doré, remarkably, created these comic strips when he was between fifteen and twenty-two years old, for Charles Philipon's Journal pour Rire (The Laughter Journal), virtually dominating its seven-year (1848-55) history. He also did three fairly long, separately published albums, which show him at his very best. They are consistently funny, often ludicrous, and illustrate a graphic inventiveness unmatched until the twentieth century. In these graphic stories, Doré parodies an ancient fable, the discomforts of life in the country, the perils of artistic ambition, the absurdities of mountaineering and travel, as well as the antics of schoolboys. This book provides a context for Doré's caricatures, focusing on his comic strips in the Journal pour Rire, the character of the journal, and the three comic strip albums he created while he worked there. Kunzle's analysis reveals Doré's debts to his predecessors, Töpffer, Cham, and Nadar. None of Doré's Journal strips has ever been republished. Some of the albums were republished, reduced and incomplete, in German and French. This edition includes facsimiles of the twelve most significant comic strips and the first translation into English of the captions.

David Kunzle, Los Angeles, California, is distinguished professor (emeritus) of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer and Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips, both published by University Press of Mississippi

Zusatzinfo	143 - 143 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Jackson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	217 x 286 mm
Gewicht	913 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-62846-216-7 / 1628462167
ISBN-13	978-1-62846-216-6 / 9781628462166
Zustand	Neuware