Not on Display: A Graphic Novel about Female Nudes in the Louvre by Zelba

Not on Display: A Graphic Novel about Female Nudes in the Louvre

An entertaining satire of nudity in the Louvre, Not on Display is a deeply serious, award-winning graphic...
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Author: Zelba
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Not on Display: A Graphic Novel about Female Nudes in the Louvre by Zelba

Not on Display: A Graphic Novel about Female Nudes in the Louvre

$38.19

Not on Display: A Graphic Novel about Female Nudes in the Louvre

$38.19
Author: Zelba
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An entertaining satire of nudity in the Louvre, Not on Display is a deeply serious, award-winning graphic novel examining the history of the female body in art and our society.

When one of the greatest museums in the world gave the illustrator Zelba free rein to make a graphic novel about great art, she knew exactly what she would do: address a double standard. She'd seen the Louvre's halls filled with sexualized female bodies, ogled at by crowds and sometimes even groped, and wanted to turn the tables. What if, she dreamed, those naked bodies refused to be the objects of our gaze? What if the female nudes in the Louvre went on strike?

The result, a co-edition with Editions Louvre, is a critique of great artists and great museums. Awarded the prestigious Prix Sceneario and the Prix Artemisia in France, the pages are filled with unforgettable characters, such as a heroic cleaner who can speak to statues and a museum director who secretly offloads his work onto his sister. Featuring well-known masterpieces, this entertaining romp displays one of the world's greatest art collections in a whole new light.



Author: Zelba
Publisher: Helvetiq
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 11.73h x 8.82w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9783039640843


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2025 pg. 64

About the Author

Wiebke Petersen, aka Zelba, was born in West Germany in 1973.

Before becoming an illustrator, she was world junior rowing champion. In 2019, she published her first book, Dans le même bateau, an autobiographical account of her experience as a top sportswoman in East Germany at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Two years later, she returned with another autobiographical story, Mes mauvaises filles, about the right to die with dignity. With Le Grand Incident, she offers us a "fantasticomic" tale of the sexualization of the female body in art.

Alice Yang is a PhD student in French at Yale University. Her translation of Abounding Freedom, a collection of prose poetry by Julien Gracq, was published by World Poetry Books in 2024. She divides her time between New Haven, Conneticut, and Lyon, France.


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