{"product_id":"art-history-for-comics-past-present-and-potential-futures-9783031073526","title":"Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ian Horton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today. Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like \u003ci\u003eEagle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mighty Thor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e2000AD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEscape \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHeartbreak Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form. Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Horton \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in Graphic Communication at the University of the Arts London, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Gray \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in Critical \u0026amp; Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45279125536919,"sku":"9783031073526","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031073526.webp?v=1769292752","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/art-history-for-comics-past-present-and-potential-futures-9783031073526","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}