Disaster Drawn - Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Informationen zum Autor Hillary L. Chute is Professor of English at Northeastern University. Klappentext In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war. Zusammenfassung In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

Product details

• Authors: Hillary L Chute, Hillary L. Chute, Chute Hillary L.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780674504516
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50451-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; HISTORY / Military / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Comic book & cartoon art, Comic book and cartoon artwork, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Reference, Guides & Companions