Comics, 1964-2024

Book 2024

From the mid-1960s, the world of comics rapidly evolved into a highly-creative art form for a sophisticated readership: in France, the magazine Hara-Kiri provided new terrains for graphical humour, while the adventures of Jean-Claude Forest's Barbarella were published in albums by Éric Losfeld; the launch in Japan of Garo in 1964, an avant-garde monthly, presented the concept of auteur comics; and the release of Robert Crumb's Zap Comix in 1968...

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ISBN:

9780500028865 (hardcover)
9780500028865

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

translation of: Bande dessinée 1964-2024. English

Notes:

"This book was published to accompany the exhibition 'Bande dessinée 1964-2024' at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Galerie 2, from 29 May to 4 November 2024"--Page opposite title page
Translation of: Bande dessinée 1964-2024
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Preface / Laurent Le Bon, Xavier Ray, Christine Carrier, Frank Madlener
Preface / Michael-Édouard Leclerc
Foreword. A new Golden Age realized / Paul Gravett
An evolving artform / Benoît Peeters
The decade that reinvented comics / Thierry Groensteen
Counterculture / Thierry Groensteen
Fear / Lucas Hureau
Dreams : at the edge of reality / Johanna Schipper
Humour / Thierry Groensteen
Colour and black and white / Anne Lemonnier
History and memory / Joe Sacco in conversation with Paul Gravett
Personal stories : autobiographical comics, their forms and themes / Laurent Gerbier
Everyday life / Emmanuèle Payen
Literature : literature and comics : sister arts / Tristan Garcia
Science fiction / Lucas Hureau
Cities / Emmanuèle Payen
Geometry : bringing infinity within reach / Marguerite Demoëte

LCCN:

2024936717

Control Number:

3359893

Other Authors:

Centre Georges Pompidou, host institution
Groensteen, Thierry, editor
Hureau, Lucas, editor
Lemonnier, Anne, editor
Payen, Emmanuèle, editor
Wright, Bethany (Translator), translator

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