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SELECTED BYCHRISTOPH NIEMANNHISTORY OF RUSSIAILLUSTRATIONS & TEXT BYGUSTAV DORE
A friend gave me DorÉ’s History of Holy Russia when I was twenty-five. I wish I had gotten it a lot earlier. First of all, it is incredibly well drawn (no surprise given its creator, Gustav DorÉ). Much more amazing, however, is the humor that reveals itself not only through the language or the skillful caricatures. I have to admit that before I had seen that book, I had considered Wilhelm Busch and Saul Steinberg to be the inventors of 80 percent of the visual humor vocabulary that is used today.
It’s so hard to come up with something truly original, so it was a relief to see that even Steinberg sometimes had to rely on the visual inventions of a giant before ...
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