The Art of Pere Joan
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1812-6 (ISBN)
Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan’s treatment of space and landscape in his singular body of work.
Balancing this goal with an exploration of specific works by Pere Joan, Benjamin Fraser demonstrates that looking at the thematic, structural, and aesthetic originality of the artist's landscape-driven work can help us begin to newly understand the representational properties of comics as a spatial medium. This in-depth examination reveals the resonance between the cultural landscapes of Mallorca and Pere Joan's metaphorical approach to both rural and urban environments in comics that weave emotional, ecological, and artistic strands in revolutionary ways.
Benjamin Fraser is a professor and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities and Antonio L—pez Garc’a's Everyday Urban Worlds. He is also an editor for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Selected Artist Chronology
Important Note on Spain for the General Reader
Introduction: Pere Joan’s Comics Geographies
Chapter 1. The Comics Landscape of Spain
Chapter 2. Topographies of the Image, Panel, and Page: Comics Narration Three Ways
Chapter 3. Rural Cartographies: Emotion, Ecology, and Subjectivity
Chapter 4. Urban Geographies: Cityscapes, Mobility, and Belonging
Chapter 5. Island Imaginaries: Mallorca’s Cultural Landscapes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.04.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series |
Zusatzinfo | 25 b&w illus. |
Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 626 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4773-1812-7 / 1477318127 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-1812-6 / 9781477318126 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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