The book is one in a series, totaling four to date, published by the museum and French graphic-novel house Futuropolis. Liberge’s tale follows the deaf student Bastien’s induction into a mysterious order of night guards, whose job involves letting the Louvre’s works come alive when no one is looking. The Winged Victory of Samothrace explodes into flight.Ī heavy-metal blur of collaged drawings, engravings, and digital images, Eric Liberge’s graphic novel On the Odd Hours presents the Louvre in an imaginative way. Franí§ois-Joseph Bosio’s sculpture of a ten-year-old Henri IV runs through a gallery. A young man with a Mohawk stands at the top of the Louvre’s grand staircase and strikes a gong, awakening the rebellious spirit in great works of art.
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