Art History for Comics : Past, Present and Potential Futures Paperback / softback
by Ian Horton, Maggie Gray
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future.
It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history of art, and proposes how such methodologies, updated in light of disciplinary developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today.
Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like Eagle, The Mighty Thor, 2000AD, Escape and Heartbreak Hotel, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form.
Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:241 pages, 24 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 241 p. 52 illus., 24 illu
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:22/09/2023
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- ISBN:9783031073557
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:241 pages, 24 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 241 p. 52 illus., 24 illu
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:22/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031073557
