Art History for Comics

Why Does Comics Studies Need Art History (and Vice Versa)?.- Disciplinary and Methodological Concerns.- Part I: The History of Art History and Comics Studies.- Part II: Possibilities for Comics Art History Now.- References.- Part I The History of Art History and Comics Studies.- Establishing Canons, Styles and Schools at the Dawn of Comics Studies.- Creating Classical Canons.- Defining Styles and Schools.- References.- Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies.- Iconography as Method and Methodology.- Cultural History as a Critical Framework.- References.- Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art.- Volume 1: Exe/orcising Gombrich.- New Left Art History.- How Karl Marx Prevailed over Carl Barks.- Volume 2: The Social History of Comics.- References.- Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction.- Claude Moliterni: A Formalism of Narrative Technique.- Gerald Gassiot-Talabot: Comics Against Formalism and Abstraction?.- Comics (and the) Modernist Avant-Garde.- Andrei Molotiu: Abstract Comics Formalism.- Abstraction Beyond Modernist Formalism.- References.- Part II Possibilities for Comics Art History Now.- Challenging Canons and the Challenge of Style: Visualising the Baroque Storyworld of Judge Dredd's "The Cursed Earth".- Contesting Canons in Comics Studies.- The Challenge of Style for Comics Studies.- Styles and Schools as Canonical Markers.- Picturing a Baroque Storyworld: Seeing "The Cursed Earth" Through Wolfflin's Comparative Methodology.- The Limits and Potential of Wolfflin's Analysis of Style for Comics Studies.- References.- Iconography for Comics Studies Reconsidered: Interpreting Visual Transformations in Jack Kirby's The Mighty Thor.- From Iconography to Iconology.- The Semiotic Turn in Art History (and Comics Studies).- Thump, Karrrack! The Iconology of Transformation in Thor.- The Challenge of Iconography and Iconology for Comic Studies (and Art History).- References.- Cultural History for Comics Studies:

Ian Horton is Reader in Graphic Communication and a founder member of the Comics Research Hub (CoRH!!) at the University of the Arts London, UK. He is associate editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and his research focuses on comic books, graphic design and illustration.

Maggie Gray is Senior Lecturer in Critical & Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK, specializing in comics, cartooning, and visual narrative. She is author of Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance and Dissent (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).