The Dancing Plague (Graphic Novel)

The Dancing Plague (Graphic Novel)
Gareth Brookes
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Trade Paperback
h240 x 170mm - 192pg
29 Apr 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781910593981
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The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring beauty. As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice? ) as it was then (as a collective demonic possession? ), the story of the "Dancing Plague" finds suitably extraordinary expression in the utterly unique mixed-media style Gareth Brookes has devised to tell it. The pioneering blend of his trademark "pyrographic" technique with sumptuously colourful (and literal) embroidery perfectly reflects, in a beautiful work of art, the enduring fragility of our human condition - from "choreomania" to coronavirus.
Gareth Brookes studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art. His graphic novels include A Thousand Coloured Castles (2017) and The Black Project, which was nominated in the Selection Officielle at the 2018 Festival de la Bande Dessinee in Angouleme. His work has appeared in ArtReview, been published by Kus, and was included in the "Comics Unmasked" exhibition at the British Library in 2014.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781910593981
Published: 29 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: SelfMadeHero
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 240mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 192

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