Giga Manga - From Edo Giga to Modern Manga - Isao Shimizu mars-1 Aurel Schmidt’s intricately detailed drawings

Aurel Schmidt’s intricately detailed drawings are a reflection of her life here in New York in that their individual parts pulled from the physical and emotional detritus of downtown

They convey a literal and figurative representation of what he famously referred to as "the color line

Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting

They are strange

Giga Manga - From Edo Giga to Modern Manga - Isao Shimizu mars-1 Aurel Schmidt’s intricately detailed drawingsGiga Manga From Edo Giga to Modern Manga, a 284 page paperback exhibition catalog, 7. 5 x 10 inches 321 color images, a nicely produced book from 2021 text is mostly in Japanese but there's a short section in English (and titles artists translated) *** "In this exhibition, we trace the vicissitudes of Japanese manga from ukiyo e prints of the Edo era to satirical manga magazines of the Meiji and Taisho periods, and children's comics from the World War