Unpopular Culture : Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s / Bart Beaty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaty, Bart, author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Europe--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Europe.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic books (hardcover, full-colour 'albums' of humour or adventure stories, generally geared towards children), seeking instead to instil the medium with experimental and avant-garde tendencies commonly associated with the visual arts. Unpopular Culture addresses the transformation of the status of the comic book in Europe since 1990. Increasingly, comic book artists seek to render a traditionally degraded aspect of popular culture un-popular, transforming it through the adoption of values borrowed from the field of 'high art.' The first English-language book to explore these issues, Unpopular Culture represents a challenge to received histories of art and popular culture that downplay significant historical anomalies in favour of more conventional narratives. In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. L'Association and the '90s Generation

Chapter 2. The Shifting Terrain of the Comic 'Book'

Chapter 3. The Postmodern Modernism of the Comic Book Avant-Garde

Chapter 4. From Global to Local and Back Again

Chapter 5. Autobiography as Authenticity

Chapter 6. From the Small Press to La Nouvelle Bande Dessinée

Chapter 7. The Strange Case of Lewis Trondheim

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9781442656727

OCLC:

1083613083

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.