Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Contemporary (1945- )

The new century manifesto on the many futures of comics art

In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived today.

Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes:

• The life of comics as an art form and as...

Since its founding in 1898, the Art Commission of the City of New York (ACNY) has served as the city s aesthetic gatekeeper, evaluating all works of art intended for display on city property. And over the years, the commission s domain has expanded dramatically to include everything from parks and courthouses to trash cans and sidewalks. In "The""Politics of Urban Beauty," Michele H. Bogart argues that this unprecedented authority has made the commission host to some complex negotiations involving artists, architects, business leaders, activists, and politicians about not only the role of...

Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is...