Comic Art in Museums (eBook)

Kim A. Munson (Herausgeber)

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2020 | PDF Single
400 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-2810-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive history of how comics and comic art gained recognition as art

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Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug Harvey, Charles Hatfield, M. Thomas Inge, Leslie Jones, Jonah Kinigstein, Denis Kitchen, John A. Lent, Dwayne McDuffie, Andrei Molotiu, Alvaro de Moya, Kim A. Munson, Cullen Murphy, Gary Panter, Trina Robbins, Rob Salkowitz, Antoine Sausverd, Art Spiegelman, Scott Timberg, Carol Tyler, Brian Walker, Alexi Worth, Joe Wos, and Craig Yoe

Through essays and interviews, Kim A. Munson’s anthology tells the story of the over-thirty-year history of the artists, art critics, collectors, curators, journalists, and academics who championed the serious study of comics, the trends and controversies that produced institutional interest in comics, and the wax and wane and then return of comic art in museums.

Audiences have enjoyed displays of comic art in museums as early as 1930. In the mid-1960s, after a period when most representational and commercial art was shunned, comic art began a gradual return to art museums as curators responded to the appropriation of comics characters and iconography by such famous pop artists as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. From the first-known exhibit to show comics in art historical context in 1942 to the evolution of manga exhibitions in Japan, this volume regards exhibitions both in the United States and internationally.

With over eighty images and thoughtful essays by Denis Kitchen, Brian Walker, Andrei Molotiu, Paul Gravett, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, and Charles Hatfield, among others, this anthology shows how exhibitions expanded the public dialogue about comic art and our expectation of “good art”—displaying how dedicated artists, collectors, fans, and curators advanced comics from a frequently censored low-art medium to a respected art form celebrated worldwide.

Autor

Kim A. Munson has contributed to many publications, including The Cambridge Companion to Comics, The Comics of R. Crumb: Underground in the Art Museum, International Journal of Comic Art, and Places Journal. She is editor of Conversations with Denis Kitchen, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 82 color illustrations
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: AIGA • American Cartooning • Art Spiegelman • Black Panther • Brian Walker • Carol Tyler • Cartoon Art Museum • Cartoon Museum UAE • Comics • comics as art object • Comics Stripped • critic • Criticism • Denis Kitchen • Dream Machine • exhibit • gallery comics • Gary Panter • Hammer Museum • high and low • History • International Museum of Cartoon Art • Jack Kirby • Jonah Kinigstein • Krazy Kat • Manga Museum • Masters of American Comics • Maus • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Milton Caniff • Misfit Lit • Mort Walker • Museum of Sex • National Cartoonist Society • Pierre Couperie • R Crumb Genesis • Roy Lichtenstein • Snow White • SOCCERLID • The Comic Art Show • Toonseum • Trina Robbins • valuation of comics • Walt Disney • Will Eisner
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-2810-0 / 1496828100
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2810-1 / 9781496828101