{"product_id":"sweet-dreams","title":"SWEET DREAMS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eCharles Burns has never hidden his interest in old romantic comics and adolescent urges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eIn \"Sweet dreams\", the author of \"Dédales\" offers us a summary of his favorite themes through around fifty unpublished illustrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eThis series of drawings is inspired by a recurring motif, omnipresent in romantic comics of the 1950s and 1960s, the image of a young woman in her bed, prey to the torments of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eBurns revisits this kitsch aesthetic by integrating it into his own universe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eThe dream then becomes the place of all passions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003ePreviously sweet and idyllic, it now welcomes fears, anxieties and fantasies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003e A massive commercial success in the United States between the 1950s and 1970s, romance comics were produced and distributed in several million copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eIntended for young girls, they were generally written and drawn by middle-aged men, most of the time anonymous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003e In \"Sweet dreams\", Charles Burns plays, not without humor, with this male gaze that has shaped the collective imagination for a long time, to better question the representation of women in American comics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eThe sweetened image of the innocent young girl thus gives way to darker torments, giving back to the unconscious its surrealist letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eBetween homage and diversion, this series of illustrations plunges us into disturbing dreams, which exercise all their power of fascination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"jCAhz\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ryNqvb\"\u003eCharles Burns • Blaise Collection • 104 pages in black and red • 30 x 20 cm • Hardcover with cloth back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CORNELIUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332823781685,"sku":"9782360812233","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/3030\/9430\/files\/IMG_1908_1686dc66-f58e-4ac6-9dc6-c31666e111eb.webp?v=1733523245","url":"https:\/\/shop.floatingworldcomics.com\/products\/sweet-dreams","provider":"Floating World Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}