Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures Ian Horton

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• ISBN 10: 3031073533
• ISBN 13: 9783031073533
• Author: Ian Horton

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.

Table of contents:

Part I. The History of Art History and Comics Studies
Establishing Canons, Styles and Schools at the Dawn of Comics Studies
Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies
Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art
Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction
Part II. Possibilities for Comics Art History Now
Challenging Canons and the Challenge of Style: Visualising the Baroque Storyworld of Judge Dredd’s “The Cursed Earth”
Iconography for Comics Studies Reconsidered: Interpreting Visual Transformations in Jack Kirby’s The Mighty Thor
Cultural History for Comics Studies: Reinterpreting the Eagle and “Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future”
A Social History of Comics Art: Looking at Writers and Readers’ Capitalism for Beginners
Re-framing the Avant-Garde: Different Ways of Seeing Escape
Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan M

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