Sztuka komiksu i problematyka sytuacji granicznej. Estetyka, forma, treści
Comic book art and the problems of the border situation. Aesthetics, form, content

Summary/Abstract: The issue of border experience has been, and still is, a very important topic in ancient and contemporary art. The themes of death, guilt, loss and suffering have attracted the attention of artists representing various art disciplines, aesthetics and modes of artistic expression: literature and poetry, visual arts, film as well as multimedia arts. The aim of this article is to draw attention to an area which is rarely discussed in relation to the theme of a border situation. Contrary to common opinions, contemporary comic books (especially graphic novels) are a kind of contemporary art in which important and difficult issues are discussed, and their authors search for such means of artistic expression (based on the symbiosis of word and image) in order to present those difficult issues in a remarkable and visually attractive way. On the example of the comic strip by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer, Audubon. On the Wings of the World, describing the life and work of J.-J. Audubon, a pioneer of American ornithology and an outstanding illustrator of nature, an attempt will be made to analyse aesthetics, form and content in the face of the problem of limits and relations between the human and the non-human.

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