Abstraction and comics

Abstraction and comics

by Aarnoud Rommens, Björn-Olav Dozo, Pablo Turnes, Benoît Crucifix, Erwin Dejasse

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Ceci n'est pas un livre sur la bande dessinée abstraite. La conjonction et dans 'Bande dessinée et abstraction' est fondamentale. Elle signale notre intention d'explorer l'entre-deux en combinant ce qui d'emblée pourrait sembler hétérogène : des bandes dessinées aux esthétiques nettement différentes, des textes usant de perspectives clairement distinctes. Le et est un moyen de rencontre et, dans ce cas, il désigne une interaction entre bande dessinée et abstraction telle que les deux en sortent mutuellement refigurés.0Ce principe de montage entend ouvrir à la fois le concept d' "abstraction" et celui de "bande dessinée" en desserrant l'étau de leurs définitions canoniques qui, globalement, calquent l'abstraction sur le non-mimétique (en histoire de l'art) ou l'utilisent pour désigner un mouvement conceptuel allant du particulier à l'universel, alors que la bande dessinée est, elle, généralement perçue comme un médium texte-image de narration séquentielle.0En réfractant l'abstraction à travers la bande dessinée et vice versa, une multiplicité d'autres termes se trouvent ainsi convoqués d'une telle manière que les deux termes sont infléchis par des distinctions opératoires supplémentaires. Idéalement, 'Bande dessinée et abstraction' cherche donc à offrir un lieu de rencontre entre culture savante et populaire ; histoire de l'art et recherche en bande dessinée ; littérature, poésie, dessin et écriture ; art majeur et art mineur ; highbrow, lowbrow, nobrow, etc. This is not a book about abstract comics. Conjunction and in 'Comics and Abstraction' is fundamental. It signals our intention to explore the in-between by combining what from the outset might seem heterogeneous: comics with distinctly different aesthetics, texts using clearly distinct perspectives. The and is a means of meeting and, in this case, it indicates an interaction between comic strip and abstraction such that the two come out mutually refigured. This principle of montage intends to open at the same time the concept of "abstraction" and that of "comic" by loosening the vice of their canonical definitions which, overall, model the abstraction on the non-mimetic (in history of art) or use it to designate a conceptual movement going from the particular to the universal , while the comic strip is generally perceived as a text-image medium of sequential narration. By refracting abstraction through the comic and vice versa, a multiplicity of other terms are thus summoned from such so that the two terms are inflected by additional operating distinctions. Ideally, 'Comic strip and abstraction' seeks to offer a meeting place between learned and popular culture; art history and comic strip research; literature, poetry, drawing and writing; major art and minor art; highbrow, lowbrow, nobrow, etc.

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