In the Shadow of No Towers
(Sprache: Englisch)
A dark and personal retelling in comic strip form of the events of September, 11 and their consequences by Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus.
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A dark and personal retelling in comic strip form of the events of September, 11 and their consequences by Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus.
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In his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking "Maus," Art Spiegelman offers a deeply personal, politically charged, graphically and emotionally stunning account of the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001--a no-holds-barred political statement and a revelation of the cultural reach of cartooning.
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Please note: The following is a section from the introduction to In the Shadow of No Towers. You may view spreads from book at: http://www.pantheonbooks.com/graphicnovels/towers.html.The Sky Is Falling!
I tend to be easily unhinged. Minor mishaps a clogged drain, running late for an appointment send me into a sky-is-falling tizzy. It s a trait that can leave one ill-equipped for coping with the sky when it actually falls. Before 9/11 my traumas were all more or less self-inflicted, but outrunning the toxic cloud that had moments before been the north tower of the World Trade Center left me reeling on that faultline where World History and Personal History collide the intersection my parents, Auschwitz survivors, had warned me about when they taught me to always keep my bags packed.
It took a long time to put the burning towers behind me. Personal history aside, zip codes seemed to have something to do with the intensity of response. Long after uptown New Yorkers resumed their daily jogging in Central Park, those of us living in Lower Manhattan found our neighborhood transformed into one of those suburban gated communities as we flashed IDs at the police barriers on 14th Street before being allowed to walk home. Only when I traveled to a university in the Midwest in early October 2001 did I realize that all New Yorkers were out of their minds compared to those for whom the attack was an abstraction. The assault on the Pentagon confirmed that the carnage in New York City was indeed an attack on America, not one more skirmish on foreign soil. Still, the small town I visited in Indiana draped in flags that reminded me of the garlic one might put on a door to ward off vampires was at least as worked up over a frat house s zoning violations as with threats from "raghead terrorists." It was as if I d wandered into an inverted version of Saul Steinberg s famous map of America seen from Ninth Avenue, where the known world ends at the Hudson; in Indiana
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everything east of the Alleghenies was very, very far away.
One of my near-death realizations as the dust first settled on Canal Street was the depth of my affection for the chaotic neighborhood that I can honestly call home. Allegiance to this unmelted nugget in the melting pot is as close as I comfortably get to patriotism. I wasn t able to imagine myself leaving my city for safety in, say, the south of France, then opening my Herald Tribune at some café to read that New York City had been turned into radioactive rubble. The realization that I m actually a "rooted" cosmopolitan is referred to in the fourth of the No Towers comix pages that follow, but the unstated epiphany that underlies all the pages is only implied: I made a vow that morning to return to making comix full-time despite the fact that comix can be so damn labor intensive that one has to assume that one will live forever to make them.
In those first few days after 9/11 I got lost constructing conspiracy theories about my government s complicity in what had happened that would have done a Frenchman proud. (My susceptibility for conspiracy goes back a long ways but had reached its previous peak after the 2000 elections.) Only when I heard paranoid Arab Americans blaming it all on the Jews did I reel myself back in, deciding it wasn t essential to know precisely how much my "leaders" knew about the hijackings in advance it was sufficient that they immediately instrumentalized the attack for their own agenda. While I was going off the deep end in my studio, my wife, Françoise, was out impersonating Joan of Arc finding temporary shelter for Tribeca friends who d been rendered homeless, sneaking into the cordoned-off areas to bring water to rescue workers and even, as art editor of The New Yorker, managing to wrest a cover image from me,
One of my near-death realizations as the dust first settled on Canal Street was the depth of my affection for the chaotic neighborhood that I can honestly call home. Allegiance to this unmelted nugget in the melting pot is as close as I comfortably get to patriotism. I wasn t able to imagine myself leaving my city for safety in, say, the south of France, then opening my Herald Tribune at some café to read that New York City had been turned into radioactive rubble. The realization that I m actually a "rooted" cosmopolitan is referred to in the fourth of the No Towers comix pages that follow, but the unstated epiphany that underlies all the pages is only implied: I made a vow that morning to return to making comix full-time despite the fact that comix can be so damn labor intensive that one has to assume that one will live forever to make them.
In those first few days after 9/11 I got lost constructing conspiracy theories about my government s complicity in what had happened that would have done a Frenchman proud. (My susceptibility for conspiracy goes back a long ways but had reached its previous peak after the 2000 elections.) Only when I heard paranoid Arab Americans blaming it all on the Jews did I reel myself back in, deciding it wasn t essential to know precisely how much my "leaders" knew about the hijackings in advance it was sufficient that they immediately instrumentalized the attack for their own agenda. While I was going off the deep end in my studio, my wife, Françoise, was out impersonating Joan of Arc finding temporary shelter for Tribeca friends who d been rendered homeless, sneaking into the cordoned-off areas to bring water to rescue workers and even, as art editor of The New Yorker, managing to wrest a cover image from me,
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Art Spiegelman
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- Autor: Art Spiegelman
- 2004, 42 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Masse: 25,6 x 37 cm, Pappband, Englisch
- Verlag: Pantheon Books, N.Y.
- ISBN-10: 0375423079
- ISBN-13: 9780375423079
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2004
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Art Spiegelman to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others...[Maus s] great innovation unmatched and possibly unmatchable was in its combination of style and subject .It would be almost impossible to overstate the influence of Maus among other artists. New York Times Magazine
Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker s most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images....From his Holocaust saga [Maus] in which Jewish mice are exterminated by Nazi cats, to the The New Yorker covers guaranteed to offend, to a wild party that ends in murder: Art Spiegelman s cartoons don t fool around.
Los Angeles Times
A startling and provocative work.
- Newsday
For one moment on an otherwise perfect fall day in Manhattan, time stood absolutely still, and since then history has rushed past too quickly for any artist to keep up. This disjunction between experience and understanding gives In the Shadow of No Towers something so much more than a linear narrative: It is a love letter to a city that this artist, no matter his fears, could not bring himself to leave.
-Paper Magazine
Like Maus, Spiegelman s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Shadow brilliantly captures incendiary history through a personal story in this case, of the artist affirming his choice to be a rooted cosmopolitan.
-GQ
A posttraumatic masterpiece.
-O Magazine
This is a powerful and quirky work of visual storytelling by a master comics artist.
-Publisher s Weekly (starred review)
You don t have to be a comics aficionado to see that Spiegelman has done a superb job of capturing the tragic absurdity of life in New York City on 9/11 and for months thereafter.
-Newsweek
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