Aesthetics of Comics

Name: Aesthetics of Comics
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ISBN: 9780271021881

ISBN-10: 0271021888

ISBN-13: 9780271021881

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Carrier

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Description:

The ingenuity with which the classial comic strip artists found ways of telling whole stories in four or five panels has been insufficiently appreciated by philosophers or historians of art. This volume examines these narrative strategies.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Nature of Comics



Caricature; or, Representing Causal Connection



The Speech Balloon; or, The Problem of Representing Other Minds



The Image Sequence; or, Moving Modernist Pictures



Words and Pictures Bound Together; or, Experiencing the Unity of Comics



Interpreting Comics



The Content of the Form; or, Seeing Pictures, Reading Texts, Viewing Comics



Interpreting a Populist Art Form; or, The Liberating Force of Krazy Kat



The Place of Comics in Relation to Art History



Posthistorical Art; or, Comics and the Realm of Absolute Knowledge


Bibliography


Index