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Seeing Comics through Art History

Alternative Approaches to the Form

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Editors:
  1. Maggie Gray

    1. Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK

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  2. Ian Horton

    1. London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, UK

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  • Examines a wide range of art historical methodologies
  • Interrogates what comics practice and scholarship offers the history of art
  • Brings attention to the historical development of Art History and some of its tensions and critical debates

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Ways of Seeing Comics: Art-Historical Approaches to the Form

    • Maggie Gray, Ian Horton
    Pages 1-9

  3. Old Skool Art History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The Lives of the Artists

      • Tobias J. Yu-Kiener
      Pages 13-32

    3. Connoisseurship, Attribution, and Comic Strip Art: The Case of Jack B. Yeats

      • Michael Connerty
      Pages 33-52

    4. Reading Comics with Aby Warburg: Collaging Memories

      • Maaheen Ahmed
      Pages 53-71
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About this book

This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a rangeof subjects within Art & Design practice.

Reviews

“Comics studies has become a new laboratory of interdisciplinary research and the collection by Gray and Horton is a vital contribution to that fundamental change. By opening a two-way dialogue between comics and art history, it outstandingly demonstrates what comics scholars can learn from art historians and, perhaps more surprisingly, how art historians can further challenge and rethink the very basics of their own discipline.” (Jan Baetens, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK

    Maggie Gray

  • London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London, UK

    Ian Horton

About the editors

Maggie Gray lectures in Critical & Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK with a specialism in comics, cartooning, and visual narrative. She is author of Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance and Dissent (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).

Ian Horton is a Reader in Graphic Communication and a founder member of the Comics Research Hub (CoRH!!) at the University of the Arts London, UK. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and his research is focused on comic books, graphic design and illustration.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Seeing Comics through Art History

  • Book Subtitle: Alternative Approaches to the Form

  • Editors: Maggie Gray, Ian Horton

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93507-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93506-1Published: 18 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93509-2Published: 19 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93507-8Published: 17 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6370

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 65 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comics Studies, Arts

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