Art is for everyone

Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox Arts Center held the “Festival of the Arts” to spotlight construction of the Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall.

Exhibitions, book trace development of comics

Original cover art, “Love and Rockets” #15There is no shortcut from popular art to cultural respectability, but few have wandered longer than comic book, which has only recently begun to receive its critical and scholarly due. In October, the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis will present The Rubber Frame: Culture and Comics, a book and a pair of complementary exhibitions that together trace the evolution of comics from early precursors in 18th and 19th century England and Switzerland to turn-of-the-last-century newspapers, the raucous undergrounds of the 1960s and ’70s and the literary alternative comics of today.

Book The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics

Edited by D.B. Dowd, professor of visual communications in the School of Art, and 2002 alumnus M. Todd Hignite, The Rubber Frame: Essays in Culture and Comics investigates a series of key themes and moments in the history of comics. Angela Miller, Ph.D., associate professor of art history & archaeology in Arts & Sciences, observes […]
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