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Breakdowns

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Breakdowns

Contributors:

By (Author) Art Spiegelman

ISBN:

9780241463925

Publisher:

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:

Viking

Publication Date:

4th August 2020

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Dewey:

741.56973

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

72

Dimensions:

Width 261mm, Height 362mm, Spine 13mm

Weight:

911g

Description

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form . . . and how it formed him!

This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son.

The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story 'Ace Hole-Midget Detective.'

Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

Reviews

Close students and fans of Spiegelman's work view Breakdowns as a sort of Rosetta Stone that offers a master key to his intricate and varied visual idiom, revealing his enormous and often overlooked range as an artist * New York Times *

Author Bio

Art Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, which was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. He lives in New York.

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