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Gustave Doré : twelve comic strips
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- THE COMIC STRIPS -- 1. Les Travaux d'Hercule (The Labors of Hercules) -- Album, 1847 -- 2. Le Communisme en tableau (Communism Depicted) -- Journal pour Rire, 1848 -- 3. La Vie en Province, Histoire d'une invitation à la camp...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Jackson
: University Press of Mississippi
, [2015]
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16txwtj |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Gustave Doré |
| Author Notes: | introduced and translated by David Kunzle |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Notes: | FID-Lizenz "FID Kunst, Fotografie, Design" (keine Universitätslizenz) |
| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- THE COMIC STRIPS -- 1. Les Travaux d'Hercule (The Labors of Hercules) -- Album, 1847 -- 2. Le Communisme en tableau (Communism Depicted) -- Journal pour Rire, 1848 -- 3. La Vie en Province, Histoire d'une invitation à la campagne (Life in the Provinces, Story of an Invitation to the Countryside) -- Journal pour Rire, 1849 -- 4. L'Homme aux Cent Mille Écus (The Man with One Hundred Thousand Crowns) -- Journal pour Rire, 1850 5. Trois Artistes Incompris et Mécontens (Three Misunderstood and Discontented Artists)Album, 1850 -- 6. Voyage en Allemagne / Voyage sur le Rhin (Trip to Germany / Trip on the Rhine) -- Journal pour Rire, 1851 -- 7. Les Trains de Plaisir de Môsieu Godard (The Pleasure Trips of Mister Godard) -- Journal pour Rire, 1851 -- 8. Les Dés-Agréments d'un Voyage d'Agrément (Displeasures of a Pleasure Trip) -- Album, 1851 -- 9. Une Ascension au Mont Blanc (An Ascent of Mount Blanc) -- Journal pour Rire, 1852 -- 10. Vacances du Collégien (Schoolboy's Holiday) Journal pour Rire, 185211. Une Heureuse Vocation (A Fortunate Vocation) -- Journal pour Rire, 1852 -- 12. La Conscription (The Conscription) -- Journal pour Rire, 1853 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T "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."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781626745896 1626745897 9781626745933 1626745935 1626745900 9781626745902 |
