Aaron Meskin, Roy T. Cook

Broschiertes Buch

Art of Comics

Beschreibung

The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essayspublished in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised bycomics and graphic novels. In an area of growing philosophicalinterest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in thedevelopment of this fast expanding field, and makes a powerfulcontribution to the philosophy of art.

The first-ever anthology to address the philosophical issuesraised by the art of comics
Provides an extensive and thorough introduction to the field,and to comics more generally
Responds to the increasing philosophical interest in comicart
Includes a preface by the renowned comics author WarrenEllis
Many of the chapters are illustrated, and the book carries astunning cover by the rising young comics star David Heatley

Autor

The Editors Aaron Meskin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on aesthetics and other philosophical subjects. His work on comics has been published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He was the first aesthetics editor for the online journal Philosophy Compass, and he co-edited Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). He is a former Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics and is Treasurer of the British Society of Aesthetics. Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, a Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on philosophical logic, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, and more recently on the aesthetics of comics. He previously edited The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (2007), and is the author of A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic (2009).

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Aesthetics
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781118799468
• ISBN-10: 1118799461
• Artikelnr.: 40134522

Rezensionen

"Regardless, though, considered as a whole, The Art of Comicsis an excellent collection and one which is likely to provoke spirited debate and serve as a spur to further research within Anglo-American philosophy (and philosophy more generally) into this sadly neglected art form. I, for one, look forward to these future developments immensely. To quote one of the greats in the history of comics--excelsior!." (British Journal of Aesthetics, 1 October 2013)