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Among China scholars, there has been much debate about the book's editorializing (it was published in Britain in June). Chang and Halliday spent years researching the book and conducted interviews with surviving Mao associates around the world. But for all its detail, this is a one-dimensional portrait, an exhaustive trashing that gives one pause, as does the certainty with which many events are described. "Mao did not care one iota what happened after his death," the authors say. Who could characterize even their own feelings with such certitude...
...suburbs of Washington State during the mid-1970s, Black Hole evokes that era's great teenage exploitation movies with its attention to atmospheric detail. It even begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog. Shaggy-haired Keith digs the fact that he has been partnered with the "total fox" Chris Rhodes. But as he stares into the spilled amphibian guts he becomes overwhelmed by a dark premonition: "I felt like I was looking into the future?and the future looked pretty messed up." Overwhelmed...
...appeared over time as series of twelve comic books.) But you can't fault Burns for laziness. Once you see one of his illustrations, you see why it took so long. Possessing a graphical style as unique and instantly recognizable as Edward Gorey's, Burns works in meticulous detail using heavy inks that seem to bring out the worst horrors of anyone or anything. He will individually trace each hideous hair of an emerging mustache above an adolescent lip, for example. Some of the most intensely high contrast comix every created, everything is made up of either pure white...
Rather, writers like Burns and Ware are prime examples of the major weakness of graphic novels: they are emotionally difficult and even hateful to readers. They demand you to be engaged, they demand you to look and absorb every sweat-inducing detail, and worst of all, they mock happy endings...
...connections as they explore the exhibit, on display at the Sackler Museum now through Nov. 27. Unlike Wolohojian, who currently teaches History of Art and Architecture 171w: “Edgar Degas,” I don’t have an expert’s eye for detail, and I’m not used to making that kind of aesthetic leap. But a private tour of the Degas collection with Wolohojian himself taught me how to begin looking at Degas —and the lessons I learned could inform anyone going into the exhibit tabula rasa.In designing...