EN 1700 Lecture Notes - Surrealism, Empty Spaces
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Lecture 13 maus i jan 11. Push beyond the prejudice that comics couldn"t be used to treat serious subjects. Used against the prejudice that comics were all about super heroes and super. Comics are composed in panels or frames and in gutters, the empty spaces between the frames. Each panel is a moment in time. The gutter is where the movement of time happens. The ethical argument of maus is that the past leads into the present, repetitively. The message is not only delivered through words and the drama of maus but we. In comics, different times inhabit the same space. also see it in the graphics. Surrealism irrational, intuitive and dreamlike images link to the unconscious. Surrealist painters dali, magritte, and breton.
