Comics and modernism : history, form, and culture / edited by Jonathan Najarian.

"Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent years, scholars have begun to place greater import on the shared historical circumstan...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tom Inge series on comics artists.
Other Authors: Najarian, Jonathan (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
Series:Tom Inge series on comics artists.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > Philosophy.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Graphic novels > Philosophy.
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Philosophy in comics.
Modernism (Art)
Romans graphiques > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Art)
Physical Description:viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Comics and modernism: an introduction / Jonathan Najarian
  • Entanglements of style: the uniqueness of modernism in comics / Glenn Willmott
  • Modernism for the masses: the armory show in comics / Katherine Roeder
  • The dreamer's modern body: Winsor McCay and the everyday sensorium / Noa Saunders
  • A thoroughly modern Kat / David M. Ball
  • Four repulsive women: Marjorie Organ, Nell Brinkley, Kate Carew, Djuna Barnes / Jean Lee Cole
  • Jackie Ormes's Torchy Brown in "Dixie to Harlem": modernism in the African American funny pages / Clémence Sfadj
  • In dialogue and debate: comics, little magazines, world literature / Louise Kane
  • Telling details: feminine flourish in midcentury Illustration and comics / Scott Bukatman
  • Speed lines: futurism and superheroes
  • "Our first literature": the poetics underground of Joe Barinard's New York School comics / Nick Sturm
  • Profane transfigurations: On a detail of a painting in a panel in an installment of "Little Annie Fanny,"1963, or how Harvey Kurtzman and Arthur Danto (mostly) agree, and deep down really disagree too / Andrei Molotiu
  • Art Spiegelman and the ghost of Picasso / Jonathan Najarian
  • "Little Tommy lost" and the anachronistic comic / Matthew Levay
  • Afterword: graphic modernisms / Hillary Chute
  • Selected bibliography
  • About the contributors
  • Index.