Overview
- 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)
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Old Skool Art History
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Perception, Reception and Meaning
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The New and Newer Art Histories
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Comics for/Beyond Art History
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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.
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Editors and Affiliations
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