Comics Versus Art / / Bart Beaty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Beaty, Bart,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter One. Introduction: Out of the Historical Dustbin – Comics and the Hierarchy of Genres --; Chapter Two. What If Comics Were Art? Defi ning a Comics Art World --; Chapter Three. Roy Lichtenstein’s Tears: Ressentiment and Exclusion in the World of Pop Art --; Chapter Four. Searching for Artists in the Entertainment Empire --; Chapter Five. Cartoons as Masterpieces: An Essay on Illustrated Classics --; Chapter Six. Highbrow Comics and Lowbrow Art? The Shifting Contexts of the Comics Art Object --; Chapter Seven. On Junk, Investments, and Junk Investments: The Evolution of Comic Book Collectables --; Chapter Eight. Crumbs from the Table: The Place of Comics in Art Museums --; Chapter Nine. By Way of Conclusion: Chris Ware’s Comics about Art --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442696266; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442696266
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and the most important institutions of the art world, including museums, auction houses, and the art press. Bart Beaty's analysis centres around two questions: why were comics excluded from the history of art for most of the twentieth century, and what does it mean that comics production is now more closely aligned with the art world? Approaching this relationship for the first time through the lens of the sociology of culture, Beaty advances a completely novel approach to the comics form.