Название: Gustave Dore: Twelve Comic Strips
Автор(ы): David Kunzle
Издательство: University Press of Mississipp
Год: 2015
ISBN: 978-1628462166
Страниц: 233
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 96 MB
Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Dor? has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Dor? 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. Dor?'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-T?pffer era of revolutionary, mid-century France. Dor?, 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, Dor? 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.