1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457996103321

Autore

Smolderen Thierry

Titolo

The origins of comics : from William Hogarth to Winsor McCay / / Thierry Smolderen ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014

©2000

ISBN

1-61703-149-6

1-62103-992-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

William Hogarth: Readable Images -- Graffiti and Little Doodle Men -- The Arabesque Novels of Rodolphe Töpffer -- "Go, Little Book!" -- The Evolution of the Press -- A. B. Frost and the Photographic Revolution -- From the Label to the Balloon -- Winsor McCay: The Last Baroque.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States.Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Gustave Dore, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual



technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001151999707536

Autore

Gasqui, Jacques

Titolo

Radon transforms and the rigidity of the Grassmannians / Jacques Gasqui and Hubert Goldschmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2004

ISBN

0691118981

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 366 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Annals of mathematics studies ; 156

Classificazione

AMS 58J40

AMS 44A12

AMS 53C40

LC QA649.G372

Altri autori (Persone)

Goldschmidt, Hubertauthor

Disciplina

516.36

Soggetti

Radon transforms

Grassmann manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index