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Comics versus art / Bart Beaty.

By: Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2012.Description: x, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781442643512
  • 144264351X
  • 9781442612044
  • 1442612045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6710 .B43 2012
Contents:
Introduction: Out of the historical dustbin : comics and the hierarchy of genres -- What if comics were art? Defining a comics art world -- Roy Lichtenstein's tears : Ressentiment and exclusion in the world of pop art -- Searching for artists in the entertainment empire -- Cartoons as masterpieces: an essay on illustrated classics -- Highbrow comics and lowbrow art? The shifting contexts of the comics art object -- On junk, investments, and junk investments: the evolution of comic book collectables -- Crumbs from the table: the place of comics in art museums -- By way of conclusion : Chris Ware's Comics about art.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN6710 .B43 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001315935

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-254) and index.

Introduction: Out of the historical dustbin : comics and the hierarchy of genres -- What if comics were art? Defining a comics art world -- Roy Lichtenstein's tears : Ressentiment and exclusion in the world of pop art -- Searching for artists in the entertainment empire -- Cartoons as masterpieces: an essay on illustrated classics -- Highbrow comics and lowbrow art? The shifting contexts of the comics art object -- On junk, investments, and junk investments: the evolution of comic book collectables -- Crumbs from the table: the place of comics in art museums -- By way of conclusion : Chris Ware's Comics about art.

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