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Unpopular culture : transforming the European comic book in the 1990s / Bart Beaty.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in book and print culturePublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: ix, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0802091334
  • 9780802091338
  • 0802094120
  • 9780802094124
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Unpopular culture.; Online version:: Unpopular culture.DDC classification:
  • 741.59409049 22
LOC classification:
  • PN6790.E9 B43 2007
Contents:
1. L'Association and the '90s generation -- 2. The shifting terrain of the comic 'book' -- 3. The postmodern modernism of the comic book avant-garde -- 4. From global to local and back again -- 5. Autobiography as authenticity -- 6. From the small press to La nouvelle bands dessinée -- 7. The strange case of Lewis Trondheim.
Review: "Unpopular Culture addresses the transformation of the status of the comic book in Europe since 1990. Increasingly, comic book artists seek to render un-popular a traditionally degraded aspect of popular culture, transforming it through the adoption of values borrowed from the field of 'high art.' The first English-language book to explore these issues, Unpopular Culture represents a challenge to received histories of art and popular culture that downplay significant historical anomalies in favour of more conventional narratives. In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. L'Association and the '90s generation -- 2. The shifting terrain of the comic 'book' -- 3. The postmodern modernism of the comic book avant-garde -- 4. From global to local and back again -- 5. Autobiography as authenticity -- 6. From the small press to La nouvelle bands dessinée -- 7. The strange case of Lewis Trondheim.

"Unpopular Culture addresses the transformation of the status of the comic book in Europe since 1990. Increasingly, comic book artists seek to render un-popular a traditionally degraded aspect of popular culture, transforming it through the adoption of values borrowed from the field of 'high art.' The first English-language book to explore these issues, Unpopular Culture represents a challenge to received histories of art and popular culture that downplay significant historical anomalies in favour of more conventional narratives. In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes."--Jacket.

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