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Dan Nadel

Disciplines:
art
publishing
comics
art/curator

Summary

American publisher, editor, and art director who has championed underground and alternative comics and visionary art — founding PictureBox publishing and curating exhibitions — bringing marginalized visionary artists to critical attention.

Core Contribution

Creates the publishing and curatorial infrastructure for alternative and visionary comics — PictureBox published Gary Panter, Gary Leib, and others in contexts that take their work seriously as art — connecting outsider visual traditions to the broader question of unconscious imagery in art that concerns Jungian art psychology.

Historical Influences

Underground comics tradition Art curatorial practice

Intellectual Lineage

New York

Contemporaries & Peers

DuerrO'Neill

Minds Influenced

Alternative comics cultureJungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

PictureBoxAlternative comics publishing

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