Crepax and Magnus : the art of pornological reflections

Bunta, Aleš (author)

Prispevek se osredotoča na politično razsežnost dveh stripov, ki pripadata zlati dobi italijanskega stripovskega žanra fumetto nero: Valentine Guida Crepaxa ter Alana Forda umetniškega tandema Magnus & Bunker. Zagovarjamo tezo, da je provokativna učinkovitost obeh stripov rezultat kombinacije dveh umetniških pristopov. Prvi pristop bomo na podlagi Deleuza imenovali "pornološka refleksija" (tj. specifična sposobnost stripa, da zrcali družbeno inherentne perverzije). Drugi pristop pa bomo označili za "metafizičen", saj sloni na umetnikovi sposobnosti zajetja (globljih ravni politične) realnosti znotraj njenih na videz lažnih negacij.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: Str. 891-905, 1022
• Numbering: Letn. 53, št. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85487
• UDC: 316.7:741.52
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 34221661
• Publication date in RUL: 16.09.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

The paper will focus on the political dimension of two comics belonging to the golden era of the Italian comic-book genre fumetto nero: Guido Crepax's Valentina and Magnus & Bunker's Alan Ford. My claim is that their respective provocative effectiveness is the result of combination of two artistic approaches. Following Deleuze, I will name the first approach "pornological reflection" (i.e. the comic-book's specific capacity to mirror the perversities that are inherent to society). The second approach, I will describe as "metaphysical" - for it consists of the artist's capacity to "capture" (deeper layers of political) reality within its seemingly false negations.