Table of Contents

Comics Arts World

Roy Lichtenstein's Tears: Ressentiment and Exclusion in the World of Pop Art

Searching for Artists in the Entertainment Empire

Cartoons as Masterpieces: An Essay on Illustrated Classics

Highbrow Comics and Lowbrow Art?: The Shifting Contexts of the Comics Art Object

On Junk, Investments and Junk Investments: The Evolution of Comic Book Collectibles

Crumbs from the Table: The Place of Comics in Museums

By Way of Conclusion: Chris Ware's Comics About Art

Endnotes

Promotional Information

'Comics Versus Art is an absolutely terrific, very impressive book. Bart Beaty has produced a striking institutional history of comics, focusing on their movement from a position of low culture and marginality to their new place of prominence. It's a work of great sophistication, providing a broader, more nuanced sense of comics as a cultural form than we have previously understood. At the same time, Beaty explores these ideas with great clarity and focus in straightforward language.' -- Scott Bukatman, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University

About the Author

Bart Beaty is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Reviews

‘This solid, sound, intriguing book will set the discourse on art and comics for a considerable time. Essential. All readers.’
*Choice Magazine vol 50:07:2013*

“Comics Versus Art is an intriguing text for readers of comics, and an illuminating look at the theoretical underpinnings of what we call – and refuse to call – art.”
*Quill and Quire*

‘Excellent investigation of the world of comics… In writing a history of ways the comic world has been taken up during modern era and beyond through sociology of art perspective, Beaty has made a valuable new contribution to the study of comic form.
*Canadian Literature 219, winter 2013*