Archive for: DWYCK

June 20, 2010
By Matthias Wivel
Columns, Dyspeptic Ouroboros, Series
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DWYCK: Hergé and the Order of Things

We’ve had a fair amount of discussion about how to approach comics critically here at HU lately, and I figured I’d expand a little upon some of the points I’ve made previously regarding cartooning as a visual phenomenon. From a modernist critical perspective, it seems clear that comics’ artistic achievement through their modern history — [...]

May 9, 2010
By Matthias Wivel
Blog, Columns
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DWYCK: Flipping the Script — Cartoons and Classical Art

A perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless useful starting point for discussing cartooning is classical art—not seen as its polar opposite, but rather as its elevated obverse, similarly aspiring toward truth. Polykleitos’ famous Doryphoros, or spear-bearer (c. 450-440 BC), as it survives in a Roman copy, is a good example. Acutely aware of the particulars of human [...]