This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the questioning of some of its deep-rooted categories and procedures, it also appraises what comics and Comics Studies afford and ask of Art History. This book draws together the work of international scholars applying art-historical methodologies to the study of a range of comic strips, books, cartoons, graphic novels and manga, who, as well as being researchers, are also educators, artists, designers, curators, producers, librarians, editors, and writers, with some undertaking practice-based research. Many are trained art historians, but others come from, have migrated into, or straddle other disciplines, such as Comparative Literature, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, and a rangeof subjects within Art & Design practice.

Maggie Gray lectures in Critical & Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK with a specialism in comics, cartooning, and visual narrative. She is author of Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance and Dissent (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).

Ian Horton is a Reader in Graphic Communication and a founder member of the Comics Research Hub (CoRH!!) at the University of the Arts London, UK. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and his research is focused on comic books, graphic design and illustration.

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Maggie Gray lectures in Critical & Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK with a specialism in comics, cartooning, and visual narrative. She is author of Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance and Dissent (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).

Ian Horton is a Reader in Graphic Communication and a founder member of the Comics Research Hub (CoRH!!) at the University of the Arts London, UK. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and his research is focused on comic books, graphic design and illustration.

Inhalt

1 Ways of Seeing Comics: Art-Historical Approaches to the Form Maggie Gray and Ian Horton

Part 1 Old Skool Art History

2 The Lives of the Artists

Tobias Yu-Kiener

3 Connoisseurship, Attribution and Comic Strip Art: The Case of Jack B. Yeats

Michael Connerty

4 Reading Comics with Aby Warburg: Collaging Memories

Maaheen Ahmed

Part 2 Perception, Reception and Meaning

5 Psychologies of Perception: Stories of Depiction

John Miers

6 Aesthetics of Reception: Uncovering the Modes of Interaction in Comics

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl

7 Reading Richard Felton Outcault's "Yellow Kid" through Perception of the Image

Christine Mugnolo

8 Colour in Comics: Reading Lorenzo Mattotti through the Lens of Art History

Barbara Uhlig

Part 3 The New and Newer Art Histories

9 Feminist Art History as an Approach to Research on Comics. Meta Reflections on Studies of Swedish Feminist Comics Margareta Wallin Wictorin and Anna Nordenstam

10 Towards Feminist Comics Studies: Feminist Art History and the Study of Women's Comix in the 1970s

Malgorzata Olsza

11 Real Queer Bodies - Visual Weight and Imagined Gravity in Sport Manga

Ylva Sommerland

Part 4 Comics For / Beyond Art History

12 Afrofuturism and Decolonisation: using Black Panther as Methodology

Danielle Becker

13 What is an Image? Art History, Visual Culture Studies, and Comics Studies

Jeanette Roan

14 From Giotto to Drnaso: the common well of pictorial schema in 'high' art and 'low' comics

Bruce Mutard

15 VAST/O Exhibition (De)Construction: Exploring the Potentials of Augmented Abstract Comics and Animation Installations as a Method to Communicate Health Experiences

Alexandra P. Alberda, João Carola, Carolina Martins, and Natalie Woolf

16 From Tableau to Sequence: Introducing Comics theory within Art History to Study the Photobook

Michel Hardy-Vallée