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Batgirl. by Scott, Mairghread,author.(CARDINAL)608634; Bellaire, Jordie,colourist.(CARDINAL)351715; Bennett, Deron,letterer.(CARDINAL)591867; Casagrande, Elena,penciller,inker.(CARDINAL)426682; Pelletier, Paul,1970-penciller.(CARDINAL)341731; Rapmund, Norm,inker.(CARDINAL)344129;
"Barbara Gordon, a.k.a. Batgirl, is heading home to Gotham City, ready to confront her personal life. But the villainous art thief Grotesque has other plans for her. During a high-speed chase with the murderous Grotesque, the villain K.O.s Batgirl with a souped-up stun gun that temporarily fries the device implanted in her spine. (That thing that helps her, you know, walk and be Batgirl?) Babs finds herself in for a whole new world of hurt now that old wounds have been opened up--and so does Grotesque"--
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Batgirl (Fictitious character); Women superheroes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Medieval monsters : terrors, aliens, wonders / by Lindquist, Sherry C. M.,1964-author.; Mittman, Asa Simon,1976-author.; Miéville, China,writer of preface.; Pierpont Morgan Library,organizer,host institution.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index.Monsters possess transformative powers, rendering them at once profoundly dangerous and utterly fascinating. Medieval Monsters explores the cultural importance and rich variety of monstrosities in the art of the Middle Ages, with examples drawn from the Morgan Library & Museum's renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts. While presenting a lively array of strange beauties and frightful anomalies--demons and dragons, centaurs, and unicorns--the authors reveal how monsters played a central role in medieval societies. The volume has three sections. "Terrors" features familiar monsters such as demons, dragons, and hell-mouths. These fearful enemies are often depicted in battle with heroes--the fiercer the monster, the more powerful its victor. "Aliens" examines how groups of people were visualized as monstrous; women, Jews, Muslims, the poor, and the mentally ill were marginalized in medieval society, as reflected in their representation in art. "Wonders" presents monsters' fascinating ability to inspire wonder and awe. From centaurs to giants to grotesque hybrids, these beasts lack codified meanings, yet their strange beauty and frightful abnormality inspire us to marvel. A preface by award-winning fantasy fiction writer China Miville argues for the enduring relevance of monsters in today's world.
Subjects: Monsters in art; Curiosities and wonders in art; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No longer human [manga] / by Ito, Junji,1963-author,artist.(CARDINAL)554274; Graphic novelization of (work):Dazai, Osamu,1909-1948.Ningen shikkaku.English.(CARDINAL)825853; Keene, Donald,translator.(CARDINAL)131587; Allen, Jocelyne,1974-translator,adaptation.(CARDINAL)596509; Dashiell, James,illustrator,letterer.(CARDINAL)599433;
Includes bibliographical references (page 615)."'Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.' Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm in arm with death. Osamu Dazai's immortal, and supposedly autobiographical work of Japanese literature is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche."--Rated M, for Mature.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Graphic novel adaptations.; Psychological comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Men; Anxiety; Men.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 8
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Tombs [manga] by Itō, Junji,1963-author,artist.(CARDINAL)554274; Allen, Jocelyne,1974-translator,adapter.(CARDINAL)596509; Erbes, Eric,lettering.(CARDINAL)424505; VIZ Media,publisher.(CARDINAL)357335;
"Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate awaits a brother and sister after a traffic accident in this town of the dead? In another tale, a girl falls silent, her tongue transformed into a slug. Can a friend save her? Then, when a young man moves to a new town, he finds the house next door has only a single window. What does his grotesque neighbor want, calling out to him every evening from that lone window?"--Rated T+ for Older Teen, ages 16 and up.Parental advisory: "This volume contains graphic violence and horror themes"--Colophon.
Subjects: Horror comics.; Paranormal comics.; Graphic novels.; Manga.; Young adult fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Haunted places; Sepulchral monuments; Neighbors; Young adults;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 21
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Beauty reigns : a baroque sensibility in recent painting / by Barilleaux, René Paul,author.(CARDINAL)178379; Wei, Lilly,author.(CARDINAL)188457; Westfall, Stephen,author.(CARDINAL)223845; McNay Art Museum,host institution.(CARDINAL)292452;
The beautiful grotesque / Stephen Westfall -- Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) -- Kamrooz Aram -- Charles Burwell -- Annette Davidek -- Fausto Fernandez -- Nancy Lorenz -- Ryan McGinness -- Beatriz Milhazes -- Jiha Moon -- Paul Henry Ramirez -- Rex Ray -- Rosalyn Schwartz -- Susan Chrysler White / René Paul Barilleaux -- Here's looking at you / Lilly Wei.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Painting, Abstract;
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The doll's alphabet / by Grudova, Camilla,author.(CARDINAL)416621;
""This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of beauty and the grotesque." -Helen Oyeyemi, author of Boy, Snow, Bird "Down to its most particular details, The Doll's Alphabet creates an individual world-a landscape I have never encountered before, which now feels like it was been waiting to be captured, and waiting to captivate, all along." -Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be "Marvellous. Grudova understands that the best writinghas to pull off the hardest aesthetic trick-it has to be both memorable and fleeting." -Deborah Levy, author of Hot Milk Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies-by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions andmotifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are by turns child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark: the marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter. Camilla Grudova lives in Toronto. She holds a degree in Art History and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta"--
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Metamorphosis;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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An exquisite corpse : death in surrealist New York / by Harrison, Helen A.(Helen Amy),author.(CARDINAL)281667;
"When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Juanita Diaz and her new NYPD counterpart Brian Fitzgerald from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland in search of a killer who left a grotesque calling card: an exquisite corpse. Suspicion soon falls on the tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did one of their bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Set in the sexually liberated New York art world of the 1940s, populated by European artists in exile and the young Americans itching to take over the avant-garde, Harrison's tale is an amalgam of truth and invention"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lam, Wifredo; Surrealism; Surrealist artists;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The artist's joke / by Higgie, Jennifer,editor.(CARDINAL)650040;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.Playful judgments -- Pop goes the weasel -- Punchlines -- Infinite jests.Surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists. The texts collected in this new reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery examine what André Breton called the "lightning bolt" of the unsettlingly comic, as seen in the anarchic wordplay of Duchamp, Picasso, the Dadaists, and Surrealists; Pop's fetish for kitsch and the comic strip; Bruce Nauman's sinister clowns and twisted puns; Richard Prince's joke paintings; art ambushed by feminist wit, from the Dadaism of Hannah Höch in the 1920s to the politicized conceptualism of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger in the 1980s; the serenely uncanny in Mike Kelley's installations and the risibly grotesque in Paul McCarthy's; and the strangely comic scenarios of artists as various as Maurizio Cattelan, Andrea Fraser, Raymond Pettibon, and David Shrigley. Artists' writings are accompanied and contextualized by the work of critics and thinkers including Freud, Bergson, Hélène Cixous, Slavoj Zizek, Jörg Heiser, Jo Anna Isaak, and Ralph Rugoff. Artists surveyed: Leonora Carrington, Maurizio Cattelan, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Fischli & Weiss, Andrea Fraser, Guerilla Girls, Hannah Höch, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, Raymond Pettibon, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Arnulf Rainer, Ad Reinhardt, Ed Ruscha, Carolee Schneemann, David Shrigley, Robert Smithson, Annikia Ström, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol. Writers: Hugo Ball, Henri Bergson, André Breton, Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Freud, Jörg Heiser, Dave Hickey, Jo Anna Isaak, Ralph Rugoff, Peter Schjeldahl, Sheena Wagstaff, Hamza Walker, and Slavoj Zizek.--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Wit and humor in art.; Arts, Modern;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wasteland : the Great War and the origins of modern horror / by Poole, W. Scott,1971-author.(CARDINAL)275148;
Includes bibliographical references.Foreword: Corpses in the wasteland -- Symphony of horror -- Waxworks -- Nightmare bodies -- Fascism and horror -- Universal monsters -- Afterword: The age of horror."The roots of modern horror are found in the First World War. It was the most devastating event to occur in the early 1900s, with 38 million dead and 17 million wounded in the most grotesque of ways, owing to the new machines brought to war. If Downton Abbey showed the ripple effect of this catastrophe above stairs, Wasteland reveals how it made its way into the darker corners of our psyche on the bloody battlefield, the screaming asylum, and desolated cities and villages. Historian W. Scott Poole chronicles the era's major figures and their influences--Freud, T.S. Eliot, H.P. Lovecraft, Wilfred Owen and Peter Lorre, David Cronenberg and Freddy Krueger--as well as cult favorites and the collective unconscious. Wasteland is a surprising--but wholly convincing--perspective on horror that also speaks to the audience for history, film, and popular culture. November 11th, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that brought the First World War to a close, and a number of smart and well-received recent histories have helped us reevaluate this conflict. Now W. Scott Poole takes us behind the frontlines of battle to the dark places of the imagination where the legacy of the war to end all wars lives on" --
Subjects: Horror films; Horror in literature; Horror in art; Psychic trauma; World War, 1914-1918; War and society; Civilization, Modern;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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It's all in the delivery : pregnancy in American film and television comedy / by Sturtevant, Victoria,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What to expect when you're expecting (to read this book) -- Confinements : enter the stork -- Hysterical fatherhood : male pregnancy on screen -- Bad pregnancies : social problems and bad seeds -- Baby bust : infertility and its discontents -- Shmashmortion -- Happily ever afterbirth."Depictions of pregnancy on screen have varied wildly over the years, from Blondie's modest lack of a baby bump immediately before labor to JLo passing out into a friend's birthing pool while a placenta drifts by. Sturtevant examines the range between the various extremes in looking at the comic history of pregnancy in film and television. She argues that comedy provides an ideal framework to deal with the complexity and often hypocrisy of social attitudes toward the female body, which is often held up as saintly or familial with the wonderful blessing of bearing children, or alternately as profane or grotesque with the consequences of sex followed by the physical messiness of pregnancy and childbirth. She links the evolution of attitudes toward pregnancy in the US with representational strategies that transformed social discomforts into comedy. Comedy has provided the generic context for some of the most groundbreaking moments in pregnant representation in the United States, from the outrageous sextuplets of 1944's screwball comedy Miracle of Morgan's Creek to Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy on I Love Lucy; Maude's abortion; Murphy Brown's controversial single motherhood; Arnold Schwarzenegger's medically improbable pregnancy in Junior; the use of abortion as a romantic comedy plot in Obvious Child; and the use of a stand-up comic's own pregnancy as a performance prop in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra routine. In each case, these breakthroughs were enabled by the "strengths" of comedy, which sanctions the violation of earlier, more restrictive norms of pregnant representation. Sturtevant examines how the history of pregnancy on screen provides a fascinating lens to understand how reproductive biology has defined women's roles across the American 20th century and into the present, beginning with studio-era prohibitions on using the word "pregnant" or showing a visible baby bump through the baby-boom-era fetishization of sentimental pregnancy. She then explores the sexual revolution and the birth control pill ushering in a new interest in non-marital pregnancy in the 1960s and '70s as well as the emphasis on biological clocks and infertility in the 1980s and '90s. She concludes with an examination of the millennial move toward more medically and socially candid representations of pregnancy. Throughout the book, she also examines the overwhelming whiteness of most of this history and the additional barriers and stigmas against non-white reproduction that have led to its shocking underrepresentation in popular media"--
Subjects: Pregnancy in motion pictures; Pregnancy in motion pictures; Pregnancy in motion pictures; Pregnancy in popular culture; Pregnancy; Pregnancy; Television comedies; Motion pictures;
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