Comics versus art / Bart Beaty.
"On the surface, the relationship between comics and the 'high' arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and a...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2012]
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Table of 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.