Comics Arts 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 Collectibles
Crumbs from the Table: The Place of Comics in Museums
By Way of Conclusion: Chris Ware's Comics About Art
Endnotes
'Comics Versus Art is an absolutely terrific, very impressive book. Bart Beaty has produced a striking institutional history of comics, focusing on their movement from a position of low culture and marginality to their new place of prominence. It's a work of great sophistication, providing a broader, more nuanced sense of comics as a cultural form than we have previously understood. At the same time, Beaty explores these ideas with great clarity and focus in straightforward language.' -- Scott Bukatman, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
Bart Beaty is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
‘This solid, sound, intriguing book will set the discourse on art
and comics for a considerable time. Essential. All readers.’
*Choice Magazine vol 50:07:2013*
“Comics Versus Art is an intriguing text for readers of comics, and
an illuminating look at the theoretical underpinnings of what we
call – and refuse to call – art.”
*Quill and Quire*
‘Excellent investigation of the world of comics… In writing a
history of ways the comic world has been taken up during modern era
and beyond through sociology of art perspective, Beaty has made a
valuable new contribution to the study of comic form.
*Canadian Literature 219, winter 2013*
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