This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the ques…
This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history--a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015)--that aims at undermining the hegemony of the discourse of art history created in the Western world. The concept of h…
Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical…
Item consists of essays, each on a term (for example "gender", "representation", "avant-garde", "fetish", "gaze", "collecting/museums").
