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Glacial Period (The Louvre Collection #1)
For the first time in the US, ComicsLit brings over the latest enfant terrible of European comics, a mad genius, and for the first time, the Louvre museum is involved in a co-edition of a series of graphic novels. There will be four and each will be a vision of this great museum by a different artist. De Crécy, at the sight of the incredible richness of the museum’s collec...more
Paperback, 80 pages
Published
February 1st 2007
by NBM Publishing
(first published September 1st 2005)
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I read this book after Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert, which is out of order, given that De Crecy's Glacial Period is the first volume in this series co-published by the Musee du Louvre. [return][return]In the end, that mis-sequence turned out to be a good thing, since De Crecy's is the better tale, and sets the stage for these graphic novel explorations of the great art museum so well. This is a sort of post-apocalyptic tale, set in future days afte...more
The first time I saw Nicolas De Crecy’s work was when one of my best friends came back from a European trip in the early 90’s with sketch books he had purchased of a new young French cartoonist. Flipping through them I was mesmerized by such a strong vision. De Crecy’s characters were both realistic and stylized in the same line. This was an artist that was closer to Egon Schiele than his contemporary brethren. The way he drew figures really showed you a glimpse of who they were. Most artists se...more
Such a great concept: archaeologists in the distant future - a new Ice Age world - come across the Louvre museum under the snow and ice. The artwork is preserved and they speculate and make assumptions about civilizations of the past based on the random assortment of art. Great idea, right?
Then why in the world was the character dialogue so WEIRD and nonsensical? At first I thought it was something lost in translation - this book was originally in French - but after more reading, I think it was...more
Then why in the world was the character dialogue so WEIRD and nonsensical? At first I thought it was something lost in translation - this book was originally in French - but after more reading, I think it was...more
I really enjoyed this story! The concept is that archaeologists in the far future discover the frozen Louvre museum under ice and try to understand what humanity was like in our time based on the paintings and artwork they discover. It's pretty entertaining to see them make assumptions about our civilization and to see how far off base they were! This story helped me to appreciate the artwork of our time (which is likely why the Louvre museum helped fund this book) but it also caused me to quest...more
De Crecy, N. (2005). Glacial period. New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine.
Fiction. This is the first in a series of graphic novels created in conjunction with the Louvre. The book begins years into the future after a long glacial period, when a team of archaeologists discover the ruins of the Louvre museum in France and speculate on the type of civilization that created the art found inside. As the explorers stroll through the ruins of the building, the art works begin to speak to each other...more
Fiction. This is the first in a series of graphic novels created in conjunction with the Louvre. The book begins years into the future after a long glacial period, when a team of archaeologists discover the ruins of the Louvre museum in France and speculate on the type of civilization that created the art found inside. As the explorers stroll through the ruins of the building, the art works begin to speak to each other...more
A thousand-years hence ice age future, genetically engineered talking pig-dogs, and a search for archeological treasure on the near-mythical frozen continent of "Euro", along with romantic yearnings, and the animated contents of the Louvre all vying to tell their stories: inventive and fascinating, my only quibble is that I wish the book were longer so I could stay with the protagonist, Hulk, a carbon14-sniffing pig-dog, longer, and to spend more time with the archeologists spinning their amusin...more
Jan 25, 2012
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Historia bonita, graciosa, ingeniosa, analítica, delirante, bien dibujada, bien desarrollada, bien cerrada. Pero, con nosequés que hicieron que me quedara con ganas de más. No de más páginas, o de una segunda parte (aunque seguramente tampoco le haría asco si apareciese), sino con ganas de que me transmitiera algo más. Quizás tiene que ver con mi ignorancia artística y mi poco conocimiento sobre las obras de arte referenciadas, que son muchas. Quizás sólo con que lo leí medio a las apuradas y si...more
Hello! I love this book! Surprisingly thought provoking, and it's got some funny bits that makes you pause and then can't help but smile in realization that things CAN be seen that way (I remember wondering what if a geologist from the future would find one of the tarmac'ed roads in the middle of nowhere, burried deep in the stratum. Say... if the cars no longer need them and people actually forgot that once upon a time people need tarmac'ed road to go around?! Wouldn't they think of these roads...more
I make it a point to not read the back or dust jacket of a book until after I have read it... especially a graphic novel that captures my attention just based on the art style. However, I think I would have enjoyed this book much more if I had some concept of what it was about before starting it. By the end I had finally put everything together, but that meant I missed quite a bit of the subtle humor. It wasn't exciting enough for me to read it twice in a row, so I just marked it up as a lesson...more
I had such high hopes for this graphic novel. The premise was fascinating to me: the time is earth in the distant future and humans have survived another ice age. A group of explorers come upon the Louvre, buried in snow. These archeologists use the Louvre itself and the artifacts (paintings, statues etc) they find there to try to make sense of us as a civilization. And, to be honest, the parts of the book where the archeologists were making assumptions about what we're like as a people based on...more
Quick, lovely, engaging. The premise: 3,000 years in the post-new-ice age future, a team of human archaeologists and a pack of super-intelligent, genetically modified dogs are exploring the massive glacier that used to be the continent of Europe, looking for signs of ancient civilizations (i.e. us). They stumble upon the Louvre, and much head-scratching and grandiloquent theorizing ensue. What sort of primitive race would use images as a mode of communication/expression? What is the correct sequ...more
"Glacial Period" comes up short despite self-proclaimed greatness.
Published in 2007 by NBM Publishing.
80 pages.
So, what do you get when a hotshot graphic novelist teams up with the Louvre to showcase their works of art with a twist?
Well, you get a short sci-fi book that has a solid start but a contrived, odd end...
Read more at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2011/...
Published in 2007 by NBM Publishing.
80 pages.
So, what do you get when a hotshot graphic novelist teams up with the Louvre to showcase their works of art with a twist?
Well, you get a short sci-fi book that has a solid start but a contrived, odd end...
Read more at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/2011/...
The art was good, but I found this story incredibly boring. I think I was supposed to be moved by the slow poignancy, but instead I was just frustrated because the plot moved so slowly and almost nothing was ever explained. If you like heady post-modernism with a dash of futurism so you can think about the meaning of existence and history and life itself between the panels, this if for you. If you like a good story, take a pass.
Num futuro distante, uma expedição científica desloca-se a uma Europa coberta de gelo. Acidentalmente, descobre o interior do museu do Louvre. Enquanto se debatem sobre as hipotéticas funções de tanta imagem realista, acabam por mergulhar literalmente na magia da arte. Com um toque surreal, este livro celebra de uma forma muito própria o encanto da história de arte.
I started out very excited and pleased with the creative exploration of this common yet intriguing premise, yet he rather lost me as it swerved off into a sort of art-worshipping I hadn't expected and don't quite feel. Then I read the back cover and discovered it was commissioned or something by the Louvre, and that made me lose a little more taste for it.
This is an interesting little story, playing with the idea of what our future selves will think of our artwork and what it might mean. Not sure that everything fully worked or made sense in this book, but some very interesting philosophical ideas and good bits of humor made it worth the read. The art isn't too bad either, very distinct and with a good color palette.
Set during an ice age in the (not too distant?) future, this first in a series of graphic novels depicts a set of explorers trying to find the Metropolis (Paris). They stumble upon the ice-preserved remains of the Louvre. While the style of art isn't my favorite, the story is really interesting. I'm going to read the rest of this series.
Interesting concept. The book takes place in a world where western civilization of today exists as a set of ruins. The knowledge of the world has been forgotten. A set of archaeologists comes upon old Paris, specifically the art museum and Pyramid. Here begins the quest to decipher the clues left behind. The archaeologists make laughable claims about our society such as "they communicate with pictures...illiterate". It was funny to watch as they took pictures....famous pieces of art...and tried...more
I read this at the suggestion of a colleague and thought it was wonderfully written and very inventive. Part of a series of comics commissioned by The Louvre museum, this is the story of an expedition in a frozen land that encounters some very strange things.
I wasn't into the story until all of the Museum pieces began to speak to Hulk, one of the genetically-modified dogs. I thought it was neat that it included a list of all the featured works of art in the back of the book.
Liked it!
But it would be more fun if I knew more about art and paintings in Louvre.
Thought there would be more stories but it was really short.
Could be made in a short movie or an animation.
But it would be more fun if I knew more about art and paintings in Louvre.
Thought there would be more stories but it was really short.
Could be made in a short movie or an animation.
De Crecy's use of the artworks was clever and his drawing style is good, but I got a bit confused as to the rest of the plot of the story. Or maybe "disinterested" is a better word than "confused."
Lovely art, which would probably have looked better in a bigger format. Quite an original story, perhaps too short: it felt to me there should have been more of it.
Beautiful water colors. The story itself brings up some interesting ideas about how art acts as a historical record of our past.
A charming and intelligent little graphic novel that begs the question: How will we be judged and interpreted by what is left behind?
Another disappointing graphic novel. The pictures just don't tell me enough about the story, and neither does the text. If this were an action story, I think I would have enjoyed it. But a more thoughtful story, such as this one seems to be, requires, I think, more text to get the more abstract ideas across. Sorry, but pictures just don't do it for me.
The premise intrigued me. Archaeologists a thousand years into the future, when the ice age has returned, misinterpret artifacts from our 21st cen...more
The premise intrigued me. Archaeologists a thousand years into the future, when the ice age has returned, misinterpret artifacts from our 21st cen...more
Archeologists of the future unearth The Louvre in the frozen landscape of France.
Well . . . I can't say it wasn't interesting.
Interesting concept, WTF execution.
This was a cool take on archaeology and how we analyze the past. A group of explorers in the future are looking for evidence of our civilization. They find the ruins of the Louvre Art Museum in France and begin to draw conclusions about our culture based on archaeological logic patterns and the paintings they see.
I think the cultural references on are too obsure for the average K-12 student, but this could be a cool way to introduce the idea of civilization and how we know information about anch...more
I think the cultural references on are too obsure for the average K-12 student, but this could be a cool way to introduce the idea of civilization and how we know information about anch...more
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