Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham

Today forgotten, the extent of Cham’s influence on visual culture could surprise specialists in the comic strip, film, and semiotics. Throughout the 1840s and 50s, he endowed the narrative image with unprecedented reflexivity, polyphony, and variations in framing and points of view. Although he neve...

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Main Author: Philippe Willems
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Paris XIII 2014-04-01
Series:Comicalités
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1964
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description Today forgotten, the extent of Cham’s influence on visual culture could surprise specialists in the comic strip, film, and semiotics. Throughout the 1840s and 50s, he endowed the narrative image with unprecedented reflexivity, polyphony, and variations in framing and points of view. Although he never made any influence explicit, the self-deconstructive humor of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman(1759-67) resonates through Cham’s image-based storytelling. Interested in mapping out the migration of narrative strategies between art forms, this first half of an article in two parts examines the manifest influence of Tristram Shandy on Cham’s early career. His perspective games gave Sternesque tricks a few new twists and broke free from such immemorial rules of representation and narrative economy as respect of proscenium-view standards, redundancy between text and image, and even duty to depict a subject altogether.
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Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
Comicalités
composition
humor
media
print
rhetorics
storytelling
title Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
title_full Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
title_fullStr Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
title_full_unstemmed Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
title_short Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l’héritage de Cham
title_sort rhetorique texte image minimalisme et jeux de perspective l heritage de cham
topic composition
humor
media
print
rhetorics
storytelling
url http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1964
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