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23%OFFCarrier, David (Champney Family Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute Of Art, Usa) - Aesthetics Of Comics - 9780271021881 - V9780271021881
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Aesthetics Of Comics

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Description for Aesthetics Of Comics paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 233.

From Gary Larson’s The Far Side to George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, comic strips have two obvious defining features. They are visual narratives, using both words and pictures to tell stories, and they use word balloons to represent the speech and thought of depicted characters. Art historians have studied visual artifacts from every culture; cultural historians have recently paid close attention to movies. Yet the comic strip, an art form known to everyone, has not yet been much studied by aestheticians or art historians. This is the first full-length philosophical account of the comic strip.

Distinguished philosopher David Carrier looks at popular ... Read more

Carrier looks at the way an audience interprets comics and contrasts the interpretation of comics and other mass-culture images to that of Old Master visual art. The meaning behind the comic can be immediately grasped by the average reader, whereas a piece of museum art can only be fully interpreted by scholars familiar with the history and the background behind the painting. Finally, Carrier relates comics to art history. Ultimately, Carrier’s analysis of comics shows why this popular art is worthy of philosophical study and proves that a better understanding of comics will help us better understand the history of art.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271021881
SKU
V9780271021881
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About Carrier, David (Champney Family Visiting Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute Of Art, Usa)
David Carrier is Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of many books, including Principles of Art History Writing (1991), The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s (1994), and High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting (1996), all from Penn State Press.

Reviews for Aesthetics Of Comics
“The ingenuity with which the classical comic strip artists found ways of telling whole stories in four or five panels has been insufficiently appreciated by philosophers or historians of art. Carrier has written a marvelous book on these narrative strategies, from which we cannot but learn something about how the mind processes pictorial information and how the Old Masters coped ... Read more

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