Nick Sousanis is a comics artist and an educator. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary.
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge.
Unflattening is an insurrection against the fixed viewpoint. Weaving together diverse ways of seeing drawn from science, philosophy, art, literature, and mythology, it uses the collage-like capacity of comics to show that perception is always an active process of incorporating and reevaluating different vantage points. While its vibrant, constantly morphing images occasionally serve as illustrations of text, they more often connect in nonlinear fashion to other visual references throughout the book. They become allusions, allegories, and motifs, pitting realism against abstraction and making us aware that more meets the eye than is presented on the page.
In its graphic innovations and restless shape-shifting, Unflattening is meant to counteract the type of narrow, rigid thinking that Sousanis calls “flatness.” Just as the two-dimensional inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott’s novella Flatland could not fathom the concept of “upwards,” Sousanis says, we are often unable to see past the boundaries of our current frame of mind. Fusing words and images to produce new forms of knowledge, Unflattening teaches us how to access modes of understanding beyond what we normally apprehend.
形式大于内容,会画画真的很厉害。 讽刺的是文章核心思想仍旧是通过文字传递的,至少我在看书的时候第一眼是阅读文字,再看绘画的展现。这么一看作者用图像塑造一种崭新认知方式的想法好像并没有成功… 于是在这种情况下,作品展现的信息量和探讨的深度广度都很有限。作者的观...
评分 评分《非平面》与其说是一部学术著作或是一篇学术论文,不如说是一篇文献综述,外加一小撮的童年闪回。抛弃传统漫画宫格式的分镜叙事,大杂烩式的一锅炖,各种领域的基本概念齐飞,最终的落脚点却踩进了心灵鸡汤,有点解放宣言的意思。但值得肯定的是作者的画工了得,图文并茂的形...
评分书的观点用人话来说就是:历史文化为我们提供了某些捷径,但这种捷径反过来又禁锢着我们,唯一能打破这种禁锢的方式就是“想象力”。用漫画的方式来搞学术,可以说超级惊艳了。(跑题了。。。) 书中有一章是关于漫画的表述。作者认为,漫画这种表达形式跳脱出了语言这的种单向...
评分芝加哥哥伦比亚学院哲学教授斯蒂芬·阿斯玛,为这本关于漫画的漫画、探讨图像与文字关系的图像小说《非平面》 画 了 一 篇 漫 画 书 评 …… 2016年德·沃德“年度图像小说奖”的颁奖词: 评审团认为,《非平面》是一部关于漫画、艺术和视觉思维的图像小说,有创意,有层次,...
印象里是synopsis of major theories in the art world. 怀疑漫画的形式是否见效,因为无论作为论文还是漫画都不吸引
评分印象里是synopsis of major theories in the art world. 怀疑漫画的形式是否见效,因为无论作为论文还是漫画都不吸引
评分购于kiss library,图画得很一般
评分形式大于内容,读完有小小的启发,但没有醍醐灌顶之感。 会有很多人觉得这本书很酷吧,但形式新颖与反类型不能成为内容单薄的理由,就像影评人大多不喜欢爱死机,因为爱死机只有好点子,每部电影在概念阶段都有成堆的好点子,但怎么把好点子拓展到两个小时的电影里是很难的,拍个十几分钟的片子是一种相对来说更简单更讨巧的做法,观众却把它捧为神作了。 本书基本围绕着人的感知方式来论述,对抗我们惯常的感知和思维模式,但这其实是一个基本的哲学问题:我们透过眼睛看到的世界是否是真实的世界?相关的讨论已经数不胜数,书里展示的东西没能引起我的兴趣。我甚至对那种一堆人在工厂流水线上批量加工的画面都已经厌烦了,全书居然还出现了好几次。
评分文字解说教条啰嗦,充斥着对块茎、视差之见、语言决定论等等概念的照本宣科;非常失望但不太忍心打低分
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