[PDF] Alay Oop eBook

Author : William Gropper
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1681373009

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A lost, early classic of the graphic novel, now back in print for the first time since 1930. William Gropper was one of the great American cartoonists and illustrators of the twentieth century. A student of George Bellows and Robert Henri, he was a prolific newspaper cartoonist, WPA muralist, Guggenheim Fellow, and committed political activist--the first visual artist called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, after which he was blacklisted (though he got revenge with his pen). He was also a master of visual storytelling, best seen in his only full-length narrative work, Alay-Oop. First published in 1930, just as Gropper was coming to the height of his powers, this lost classic of the graphic novel presents an unusual love triangle: two circus acrobats and the honey-tongued schemer who comes between them. In page after page of charming, wordless art, Gropper takes us from the big top to bustling New York streets, from a cramped tenement apartment to the shifting landscape of a dream, as his characters struggle with the conflicting demands of career, family, and romance. A timeless and surprisingly modern yarn--with backflips aplenty.

Author : Paul Bevan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004428739

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In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.

Author : Lynd Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0486445003

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The powerful imagery and psychological intensity of Ward's wordless novels have elicited comparisons to the writings of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and they continue to influence modern graphic novelists such as Frank Miller. This 1930 work tells a gripping tale through imagery alone, consisting solely of hauntingly rendered woodcuts. 128 illustrations.

Author : Ben Gold
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2024-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814351395

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A working-class radical revolutionary's tale—penned by a prominent union leader—now available in English. Written in 1944 by Ben Gold, the president of the Furriers Union, this working-class, coming-of-age novel traces the family origin, immigration, and radicalization of an everyman named Avreml Broide. Mirroring Gold's own life, Avreml's story begins entangled in a complex intergenerational social and criminal community in Bessarabia just after the turn of the twentieth century. Personal dramas drive a young Avreml to New York City in his young adult years, where he finds a job in the fur industry and devotes himself entirely to his union, party, and the fight against fascism, often to the detriment of his personal life and relationships. Through strikes, dissidence, and finally on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, Avreml's journey presents the fascinating ambiguity of subsuming the self in service to party discipline. With bold and stimulating illustrations by William Gropper, Annie Sommer Kaufman's translation brings Gold's emotionally rich narrative forward to reveal some of the most dramatic conflicts in America's suppressed Communist history. This novel offers a powerful counternarrative to histories and narratives of Jewish immigration that emphasize materialist American dreams and upward class mobility. Your Comrade, Avreml Broide offers an enticing mix of fact and fiction to demonstrate the personal risks, revolutionary dreams, and heartaches of Yiddish-speaking American Communists.

Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195335791

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Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Author : Louis Lozowick
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780845347300

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Cowper is too often read as an escapist poet, whose requirement constitutes an attitude of political retreat and disengagement. This book covers the highly politicised context of retirement as a mode of political opposition in the 18th century and shows the extent to which one poet drew from, and contrinuted to, this radical tradition.

Author : Ed Subitzky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 168137787X

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The first-ever collection of comics by Ed Subitzky—comedy writer, National Lampoon legend, Atari spokesperson, “The Impostor” on The David Letterman Show, and an enduring influence on an entire generation of cartoonists and humorists. For the entire run of National Lampoon, Ed Subitzky bent, broke, and reimagined what a cartoon could do: A cartoon that hypnotizes you. A cartoon that goes to prison. A cartoon that folds up and flies away. Framed by an interview with Mark Newgarden, this first-ever collection of Subitzky’s work is a portrait of one of the funniest, most prolific humorists of the ’70s and ’80s.

Author : Santiago García
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1628464828

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A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world. García not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral character, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, García illustrates how the graphic novel, with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile, represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comics and what they can achieve.