[DOC] Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western; 1969ndash;1980 by Andrew Patrick Nelson at Arts-Photography

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Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip; Gustave Doreacute; has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics; he earned an unsurpassed reputation and corresponding scholarly attention. Doreacute; himself repudiated his early work; and similarly critics and biographers have given short shrift to his beginnings as a caricaturist. These caricatures are herein rescued entirely for the first time in English by the renowned comics scholar David Kunzle. Doreacute;rsquo;s caricature is known to a few specialists; but virtually no one has pointed out that his mastery of the comic strip particularly marks him as an entirely original figure in the post-Touml;pffer era of revolutionary; mid-century France. Doreacute;; remarkably; created these comic strips when he was between fifteen and twenty-two years old; for Charles Philiponrsquo;s Journal pour Rire (The Laughter Journal); virtually dominating its seven-year (1848ndash;55) history. He also did three fairly long; separately published albums; which show him at his very best. They are consistently funny; often ludicrous; and illustrate a graphic inventiveness unmatched until the twentieth century. In these graphic stories; Doreacute; parodies an ancient fable; the discomforts of life in the country; the perils of artistic ambition; the absurdities of mountaineering and travel; as well as the antics of schoolboys. This book provides a context for Doreacute;rsquo;s caricatures; focusing on his comic strips in the Journal pour Rire; the character of the journal; and the three comic strip albums he created while he worked there. Kunzlersquo;s analysis reveals Doreacute;rsquo;s debts to his predecessors; Touml;pffer; Cham; and Nadar. None of Doreacute;rsquo;s Journal strips has ever been republished. Some of the albums were republished; reduced and incomplete; in German and French. This edition includes facsimiles of the twelve most significant comic strips and the first translation into English of the captions.