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Author Bentti, Alejo, author

Title Men of steel, women of wonder : modern American superheroes in contemporary art / Alejo Benedetti
Published Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, [2019]

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Contents Intro; Contents; Zero Issue -- Issue 00; Foreword / Rod Bigelow; Acknowledgements; Of Waistbands and Journeys: An Introduction; Works in Exhibition; Image Credits; The Hero We Know -- Issue 01; The Spectacular Banality of the Superhero / Bart Beaty; Origin Stories -- Issue 02; Manly Workers and Pin-up Girls: Sources for Comic Book Superheroes in 1930s American Visual Culture / Erika Doss; Glimpsing Humanity -- Issue 03; When They Bleed: Our Vulnerable American Gods / Alejo Benedetti; Defender of Innocents -- Issue 04; Superheroes: Dreaming Utopia in Art / Andrianna Campbell; Index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 19, 2019)
Subject Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art -- Exhibitions
SUBJECT Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art fast
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
Superheroes in art -- Exhibitions
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- General.
Art, Modern
Superheroes in art
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, host institution.
ISBN 9781610756662
1610756665