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Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante's Divine Comedy | Seymour Chwast
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The "left-handed designer," Seymour Chwast has been putting his unparalleled take-and influence-on the world of illustration and design for the last half century. In his version of Dante's Divine Comedy, Chwast's first graphic novel, Dante and his guide Virgil don fedoras and wander through noir-ish realms of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, finding both the wicked and the wondrous on their way. Dante Alighieri wrote his epic poem The Divine Comedy from 1308 to 1321 while in exile from his native Florence. In the work's three parts (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise), Dante chronicles his travels throughthe afterlife, cataloging a multitude of sinners and saints-many of them real people to whom Dante tellingly assigned either horrible punishment or indescribable pleasure-and eventually meeting both God and Lucifer face-to-face. In his adaptation of this skewering satire, Chwast creates a visual fantasia that fascinates on every page: From the multifarious torments of the Inferno to the host of delights in Paradise, his inventive illustrations capture the delirious complexity of this classic of the Western canon.
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Michellesibs
Dante's Divine Comedy | Seymour Chwast
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This has left me so confused, half way through i realised I was reading the illustrated version so perhaps without the photos (I was reading the kindle version) the text didn't make much sense. At some point I will have to read the full version to get the full meaning from this book.

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JoeStalksBeck
Dante's Divine Comedy | Seymour Chwast
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