Long live Bosc! /franCais

(Provisional text)Bosc. From humor to black inkISBN: 9782351251133Book Paperback in French250 illustrations, 272 pages39 eurosOffice Oct 04Mise available Volume: 1500 exCollection: illustrationDepartment: illustration, "It was Bosc who, in France, with Chaval, made the best drawings. With few apparent means, he perfectly drew situations of great humor and rigorous intelligence. "SempéJean-Maurice Bosc, born in Nîmes on December 30, 1924, is one of the fathers of modern humorous drawing, who, in the 1950s, abandoned the traditional counterpoint between the motif and an ironic or bawdy legend, to invent new graphic games or visual gags. Inspired by the American cartoons of the New Yorker, his line minimalist, almost trembling, but extremely expressive, delivers to us a universe both poetic and filled with a sweet bitterness. Among the various themes which he tirelessly declines, his laconic sketches of the daily life of couples translate the insurmountable with incredible efficiency incommunicability between the sexes. Deeply traumatized by his participation In the Indochina war, it is as a tireless anti-militarist that he echoes of various contemporary conflicts. Death, in the form of many burials and hangings, is also very present, perhaps reflecting the anguished and melancholic character of the artist, who will end up giving himself the died in Antibes in 1973. Bosc dissected his era and anticipated ours, with intuition and lucidity. Inspirer of Boll, Bretécher, Cabu, Copi, Loup, Reiser, Wolinski, friend of Chaval, Desclozeaux, Folon, Morez, Mose, Sempé and Tetsu, and many others, Bosc has many admirers among the illustrators themselves but is still too often unknown to the general public. Among the three thousand drawings published in French and foreign newspapers, and numerous albums, the catalog brings together nearly 250 of his drawings organized according to the main themes that he declines to the point of obsession, but with constantly renewed inventiveness: the absurd, the authority and the powers in war, women, love and couples, De Gaulle, the famous Blaise, the average man whose hopes are perpetually disappointed, etc. It is completed by a DVD of the film Voyage en Boscavie, which Bosc directed in 1958 with Claude Choublier and Jean Herman Bosc and who received the Emile prize Cohl for the animated film. Authors Alain Damman, Guillaume Doizy, Nelly Feuerhahn, Loup, Thérèse Willer, Alexandre Vialatte.NewsExhibition at Tomi Ungerer Museum. International Center of Illustration from October 17, 2014 to March 1, 2015