Guardians of the Louvre

Guardians of the Louvre PDF Author: Jiro Taniguchi
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ISBN: 9781910856307
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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May 2013 and a young Japanese designer ends a group tour to the 31st Barcelona International Comic Fair with a solo visit to Paris, intending to visit many of the museums and galleries of the French capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering illness in a foreign land, deprived of any familiar attention or care. When the fever abates a little he tries to make up for lost time with a whirlwind tour starting with the greatest of them all - The Louvre.

Guardians of the Louvre

Guardians of the Louvre PDF Author: Jirō Taniguchi
Publisher: Nbm Comicslit
ISBN: 9781681120348
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Acclaimed manga artist Jiro Taniguchi provides the latest entry in the Louvre collection of graphic novels. After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese artist stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate or familiar recourse. When the fever breaks somewhat, he sets out on his visit and promptly gets lost in the crowded halls of the Louvre. Very soon, he discovers many unsuspected facets to this world in a museum in a journey oscillating between feverish hallucination and reality, actually able to speak with famous painters from various periods of history, led to crossroads between human and personal history by... the Guardians of the Louvre.

Guardians of the Louvre

Guardians of the Louvre PDF Author: Jiro Taniguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910856307
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
May 2013 and a young Japanese designer ends a group tour to the 31st Barcelona International Comic Fair with a solo visit to Paris, intending to visit many of the museums and galleries of the French capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering illness in a foreign land, deprived of any familiar attention or care. When the fever abates a little he tries to make up for lost time with a whirlwind tour starting with the greatest of them all - The Louvre.

Cats of the Louvre

Cats of the Louvre PDF Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974713857
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened galleries, an unseen and surreal world comes alive—a world witnessed only by the small family of cats that lives in the attic. Until now... Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias. -- VIZ Media

Phantoms of the Louvre

Phantoms of the Louvre PDF Author: Enki Bilal
Publisher: NBM Publishing
ISBN: 1561638412
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Superstar comic artist Enki Bilal reimagines the Louvre as a ghostly place in this series of 22 portraits. The Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a reclining Christ, an Egyptian bust—these and other works of art are seen through the eyes of their own particular phantom. The motley collection of men, women, and children presented in these vignettes— a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, and a German officer, among others—have little in common other than their often violent demises and an eternity spent haunting the iconic Parisian museum. Bilal recounts the life stories of these lost souls in dramatic biographies that combine fiction and historical reality, often evoking the creation of the works in question. The paintings that compose this graphic novel were presented in a special exhibition at the Louvre in early 2013.

The Red Mother With Child

The Red Mother With Child PDF Author: Christian Lax
Publisher: NBM
ISBN: 1681122588
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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A red Mother with Child, a 14th century African sculpture, is saved from the destructive madness of Islamists by Alou, a young honey hunter. In the company of other migrants, sisters, and brothers of misfortune, Alou goes all out to reach Europe. His goal and obsession: entrust the precious statuette to the Louvre Museum! A new and exciting addition to the ever-expanding Louvre collection that commissions graphic novels from leading world artists to spin tales around the famous museum.

The Ladies-in-Waiting

The Ladies-in-Waiting PDF Author: Santiago Garcia
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683960122
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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In 1656, Diego Velázquez, leading figure in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, created one of the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). This graphic novel, written and drawn by two of Spain’s most sophisticated comics creators, examines its legacy as one of the first paintings to explore the relationship among the viewer, reality, and unreality. (It guest stars Cano, Salvador Dalí, Zurbarán, and many others.) Olivares’s art moves from clear line to expressionistic; from pen nib to brush stokes; from one color palette to another, as The Ladies-in-Waiting uses fiction to explore the ties among artists and patrons, the past and the present, institutions and audiences, creators and creativity. Their combined efforts have garnered not only international comics prizes, but the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain, where the book has been a commercial and critical sensation.

The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories

The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories PDF Author: Jirō Taniguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788496427334
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them. Surrounded by wolves and fighting for their survival, two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion... 1920s Japan and a man sets out to find the bear that killed his son... A marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical whale graveyard. Six shorts with as many stories of men confronted with a savage nature, which is sometimes cruel, sometimes forgiving but always vast. Taniguchi at his award-winning best.

Cruising Through the Louvre

Cruising Through the Louvre PDF Author: David Prudhomme
Publisher: NBM
ISBN: 1561639923
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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An artist's unique take on the museum experience: peoplewatching Author and artist David Prudhomme meanders through the Louvre, feeling as if in the panels of a giant comic while he himself is creating his own is this graphic novel. In this institution, all manner of people from all over the world rub elbows quietly. So Prudhomme decides to cruise through the museum, not to look at the world famous art, but to observe the people and their interaction with it. As he wanders, he discovers a group of students somehow stuck together just as in the shipwreck on the Raft of the Medusa; a man standing behind the Seated Scribe, as if attempting to read over his shoulder; and in the hall of antiquities, a woman placing her head in a lion's mouth. This work presents readers a strange, silent, and casual choreography, danced in the midst of one of the most prestigious museums in the world.

Furari

Furari PDF Author: Jirō Taniguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908007292
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Jiro Taniguchi returns with this delightful and insightful tale of life in a Japan long forgotten. Inspired by an historical figure, Tadataka Ino (1745 - 1818), Taniguchi invites us to join this unnamed but appealing and picturesque figure as he strolls through the various districts of Edo, the ancient Tokyo, with its thousand little pleasures. Now retired from business he surveys, measures, draws and takes notes whilst giving free rein to his taste for simple poetry and his inexhaustible capacity for wonder.

No. 5, Vol. 1

No. 5, Vol. 1 PDF Author: Taiyo Matsumoto
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974728889
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world? -- VIZ Media