Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beinecke, Harriet Earle,
Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara
Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent
Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited volume tracing
Art Spiegelman's exceptional trajectory from underground rebellion
to mainstream success, Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art
Spiegelman reveals his key role in the rise of comics as an art
form and of the cartoonist as artist. The collection grapples with
Spiegelman's astonishing versatility, from his irreverent
underground strips, influential avant-garde magazine RAW, the
expressionist style of the comics classic Maus, the illustrations
to the Jazz Age poem "The Wild Party," and his response to the
September 11 terrorist attacks to his iconic cover art for the New
Yorker, his children's books, and various cross-media
collaborations. The twelve chapters cut across Spiegelman's career
to document continuities and ruptures that the intense focus on
Maus has obscured, yielding an array of original readings.
Spiegelman's predilection for collage, improvisation, and the
potent protest of silence shows his allegiance to modernist art.
His cultural critique and anticapitalist, antimilitary positions
shed light on his vocal public persona, while his deft intertextual
strategies of mixing media archives, from comics to photography and
film, amplify the poignance of his works. Developing new approaches
to Spiegelman's comics-such as the publication history of Maus, the
history of immigration and xenophobia, and the cartoonist's
elevation of children's comics-the collection leaves no doubt that
despite the accolades his accessible comics have garnered, we have
yet to grasp the full range of Spiegelman's achievements in the
realm of comics and beyond.
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