9 juillet 2021
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Patricia Mainardi, « The Beginnings of the Bande Dessinée », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10.4000/books.pupo.2224
Although the Bande Dessinée is an ubiquitous part of modern visual culture, even those familiar with its origins in the work of the Swiss schoolmaster Rodolphe Töpffer (1799-1846) are often unaware that its visual language developed only gradually across several decades. For while it is true that Töpffer invented this genre, known in the nineteenth century as « albums comiques », it was French artists from the 1830s to the 1850s who developed his invention into the modern visual language of t...