[audiobook] The City Crown by Bruno Taut (Ashgate Studies in Architecture) by Matthew Mindrup; Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis at Arts-Photography

Description

Hellboy; Mike Mignolarsquo;s famed comic book demon hunter; wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboys World shows how our engagement with Hellboys world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatmanrsquo;s dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened ldquo;adventure of readingrdquo; in which syntheses of image and word; image sequences; and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the readerrsquo;s imagination to inhabit. Drawing upon other mediamdash;including childrenrsquo;s books; sculpture; pulp fiction; cinema; graphic design; painting; and illuminated manuscriptsmdash;Bukatman reveals the mechanics of creating a world on the page. He also demonstrates the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the readerrsquo;s experience; invoking the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control and delving into shared fictional universes and occult detection; the horror genre and the evocation of the sublime; and the place of abstraction in Mignolarsquo;s art. Monsters populate the world of Hellboy comics; but Bukatman argues that comics are themselves little monsters; unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist; happily; on the margins. The book is not only a treat for Hellboy fans; but it will entice anyone interested in the medium of comics and the art of reading.