Book Cover
Book
Author Carrier, David, 1944-

Title The aesthetics of comics / David Carrier
Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  741.501 Car/Aoc  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Caricature; or, Representing Causal Connection -- 2. The Speech Balloon; or, The Problem of Representing Other Minds -- 3. The Image Sequence; or, Moving Modernist Pictures -- 4. Words and Pictures Bound Together; or, Experiencing the Unity of Comics -- 5. The Content of the Form; or, Seeing Pictures, Reading Texts, Viewing Comics -- 6. Interpreting a Populist Art Form; or, The Liberating Force of Krazy Kat -- 7. Posthistorical Art; or, Comics and the Realm of Absolute Knowledge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
LC no. 99017980
ISBN 027101962X (cl. : alk. paper)
0271021888