Comic Art in Museums By Kim A. Munson 2020 0

[BookofStrange]

I have been fascinated by a new book about original art. Comic Art in Museums (2020) is a historical approach to what has happened and a commentary about why comic art needs to be in museums.  It is basically a collection of articles and essays from 1930 to 2018 about comic art in museums, comic art museums, artists in museums, and how the art world has struggled with High/Low distinctions.

If you attended the Masters of American Comics show in 2005  you will appreciate how this discussion of "is it art?" has gone on for a long time. I appreciated learning the history of the comic art museums as well as struggling through the arguments of the place of comic art. I have been surprised that this has not been actively discussed on CAF or this forum because we seem to discuss this topic all the time. I get tired of talking about value. Instead let's have more of how incredibly beautiful and moving comic art can be.

So here are quotes to start the discussion:

Cassel (2003) "Comics are stereotypically an explicit narrative medium while the narratives of fine art are notoriously implicit."

Laaniste (2002) "For the comic to work, it must be understandable...However...intelligibility in art is usually interpreted as trivial kitsch." 

Here are some links to ordering the book

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Comic-Art-in-Museums

https://www.amazon.com/Comic-Art-Museums-Kim-Munson/dp/1496828070

[Will_K]

Thanks, I'll order one.

FYI-

https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/471907-comic-art-in-museums-a-new-book

 

 

Edited September 10, 2020 by Will_K

[Will_K]

It looks like the University Press of Mississippi has an interesting collection of books related to comics.  However, the only ones that interest me are collected interviews with various comic creators (e.g. Alan Moore, Will Eisner, Larry Hama, Howard Chaykin, Charles Schulz).

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Subjects/Comics-Studies