Art of Comics

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-79946-8
Verlag: Turner Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. In an area of growing philosophical interest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in the development of this fast expanding field, and makes a powerful contribution to the philosophy of art.
* The first-ever anthology to address the philosophical issues raised by the art of comics
* Provides an extensive and thorough introduction to the field, and to comics more generally
* Responds to the increasing philosophical interest in comic art
* Includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis
* Many of the chapters are illustrated, and the book carries a stunning cover by the rising young comics star David Heatley

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meskin, Aaron

Cook, Roy T

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ellis, Warren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Acknowledgments vii

List of Figures viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Foreword xii
Warren Ellis

The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction xiv
Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook

Part One: The Nature and Kinds of Comics 1

1 Redefining Comics 3
John Holbo

2 The Ontology of Comics 31
Aaron Meskin

3 Comics and Collective Authorship 47
Christy Mag Uidhir

4 Comics and Genre 68
Catharine Abell

Part Two: Comics and Representation 85

5 Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics 87
Thomas E. Wartenberg

6 What's So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction 105
Patrick Maynard

7 The Language of Comics 125
Darren Hudson Hick

Part Three: Comics and the Other Arts 145

8 Making Comics into Film 147
Henry John Pratt

9 Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium?]Specific Conventions 165
Roy T. Cook

10 Proust's In Search of Lost Time: The Comics Version 188
David Carrier

Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Meskin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Aesthetics at the University of Leeds.

Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, a Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.