Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures

by Maggie Gray and Ian Horton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303107355X
• ISBN13: 9783031073557
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"