Disaster Drawn by Hillary L. Chute - 9780674504516

Disaster DrawnVisual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form\nAuthor(s): Hillary L. Chute\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: The Belknap Press\nISBN-13: 9780674504516, 978-0674504516\nSynopsis\nIn hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshimas Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.\n\nHillary L. Chute traces how comics inherited graphic print traditions and innovations from the seventeenth century and later, pointing out that at every turn new forms of visual-verbal representation have arisen in response to the turmoil of war. Modern nonfiction comics emerged from the shattering experience of World War .