The Dancing Plague

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This utterly original graphic novel tells the true story of when hundreds of a town's inhabitants were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance.The Dancing Plague is a visually striking graphic work about the 1518 Strasbourg “dancing plague,” using embroidery and pyrography to turn medieval mass hysteria into… Přejít na celý popis

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This utterly original graphic novel tells the true story of when hundreds of a town's inhabitants were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance.

The Dancing Plague is a visually striking graphic work about the 1518 Strasbourg “dancing plague,” using embroidery and pyrography to turn medieval mass hysteria into something darkly beautiful and unsettling on the page. It shows how art can make even a half‑forgotten catastrophe feel immediate again.

The story is told from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of the witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring beauty.

As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice?) as it was then (as a collective demonic possession?), the story of the “Dancing Plague” finds suitably extraordinary expression in the unique mixed-media style Gareth Brookes has devised to tell it.

The pioneering blend of his trademark “pyrographic” technique with sumptuously colorful—and literal—embroidery perfectly reflects, in a beautiful work of art, the enduring fragility of our human condition.

“The most visually stunning quarantine comic I’ve seen is THE DANCING PLAGUE by the British artist Gareth Brookes . . . With fire and needle, Brookes crafts a book the likes of which we’ve never seen before.” – The New York Times  

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Nakladatel
Selfmadehero
Rozměr
240 x 173 x 20
jazyk
angličtina
Vazba
měkká vazba
Hmotnost
518 g
isbn
978-1-910593-98-1
Počet stran
192
datum vydání
29.04.2021
ean
9781910593981

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