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Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and graphic novel.

Auf den ersten Blick mag es überraschen, den Revolutionär Che Guevara als Heiligen und Jesus Christus, den Sohn Gottes, als Revolutionär zu sehen. David Kunzle zeigt auf, wie Che Guevara nach seinem Tod zum theomorphen Idol verklärt wurde. Zahlreiche Bilder, Gedichte, Theaterstücke und Filme bezeugen diesen Prozess, der sich fleißig traditioneller Motive der christlichen Ikonographie bediente. - Um zu verdeutlichen, wie nahe sich beide tatsäch...

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After his death, Che Guevara became an idol and was even compared to Jesus Christ. Many images, poems, plays, and films bear witness to this remarkable process, which made studious use of Christian iconography. In this way, Che Guevara became a Christ figure for our times. In order to explain their real affinity, the author examines Jesus as a historical figure and illuminates parallels with Che. llels with Che.

At once military, social and art history, this book elucidates various visual media, much of it little known, that denounce military cruelty in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. This unique Netherlands specialty contrasts with Rubens' glorification of war, and its justification in patriotic siege prints, Scipio Africanus, and the "courtiers" of the civic guard groups and Ter Borch.

Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Doré has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Doré himself repudiated his early work, and critics and biographers have given short shrift to his beginnings as a caricaturist. These caricatures are here rescued for the first time in English by the comics scholar David Kunzle.

A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip

A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip

The first English-language edition of the premier comic artist's work

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Fashion and sex have always enjoyed a very close relationship. This history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. It shows how the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman, in Victorian times it was seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order.