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Rodolphe Töpffer
Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799–1846), schoolmaster, university professor, pol...
The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672
The art of the Netherlands (Dutch and Flemish) is unique in Early Modern Europe in its concern for military cruelty against civilians, principally the...
Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture
Presenting the history of corsetry and body sculpture, this edition shows how the relationship between fashion and sex is closely bound up with sexual...
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one m...
Icon, Myth, and Message
Che Guevara left his imprint on history and on the hearts and minds of artists and writers throughout the world. In this work, art historian David Kun...
A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847–1870 enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried...
A Social History of the Corset, Tight-lacing, and Other Forms of Body-sculpture in the West
Explores the history of corsets and other garments that force the female body to conform to an ideal and analyzes their social, sexual, and anthropolo...
Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
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Kunzle outlines the historical conditions in Nicaragua that gave rise to the Revolution and to the murals, from the era of Sandino and the Somozas to ...
Corsets, Tight-lacing & Other Forms of Body-sculpture
The Political Economy of Gender
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development i...
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839-1862
"Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one ...
The Fusion in Image and Word of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ
After his death, Che Guevara became an idol and was even compared to Jesus Christ. Many images, poems, plays, and films bear witness to this remarkabl...