Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241463925 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241463920 |
| Author: | Art Spiegelman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 72 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 911g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 261mm x 362mm |
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Critics Review
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 *
Art Spiegelman
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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