Colwell Guy - Delights: A Story Of Hieronymus Bosch - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: In Guy Colwell's first full graphic novel in over 30 years we see one painter Colwell himself consider another Hieronymus Bosch and the story behind the latter's most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Bosch's life and the commissioning of his enormous triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Bosch's time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety creativity and commerce. In Colwell's version of Jheronimus van Aken (Bosch's real name) he is an artist paid well by local dukes to paint a vision of the world before the fall but will the religious leaders of his village see it as celebrating God's creation or fatally corrupted by sensuality? And what of the increasing numbers of young models needed to depict pre - apple innocence? This imaginatively conceived graphic biography is Colwell's crowning achievement in a cartooning career begun in the underground comix movement of the 1970s and marked by risk - taking and political engagement. His drawing rendering and storytelling has never been as self - assured as in Delights.
Title: Delights: A Story Of Hieronymus Bosch
Author(s): Colwell Guy
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Barcode: 9781683969525
Pages: 168 Pages, 168 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Graphic Novels