![]() ![]() Continue Reading →Ĭategories: Aesthetics and Beauty, Art and Ethics, Artforms, Essays, Museums and Galleries, Painting and Photography, The Artworld, The Internet, The Philosopher's Perspective, What is Art | But Théâtre D’opéra Spatial is a digital painting generated by AI. Or maybe the painting is a comment on class, the wealthy women in the ballroom looking out at rustic people. Maybe it is a comment on being “kept women”, the anonymous ladies secluded from nature and politics in their artificial home. And the subject-women staring out onto the countryside from a vaguely European but suggestively futuristic ballroom-invites interpretation. Expressive brush strokes prove care for each element. Its color palette and composition evoke drama. His work, Théâtre D’opéra Spatial, is undeniably beautiful. Jason Allen recently ignited a firestorm of controversy by winning first place in the Colorado State Fair’s digital art competition. Tags: comics, film, gender, photography, roundtables, social construction, superhero | Author’s response from Sam Cowling and Wesley CrayĬategories: Artforms, Artworld Roundtables, Games, Other, Painting and Photography, The Artworld, The Philosopher's Perspective, The Philosophy World |.Austin English, Artist and writer (he/him).Dolan Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities (he/him) Eike Exner, Historian of Comics (he/him).John Holbo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore (he/him).Henry Pratt, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marist College (he/him).Sam Langsdale, Independent feminist scholar (she/her).Nicholas Whittaker, PhD Candidate at CUNY Graduate Center (they/them).Our hope is that philosophers will find interest in the investigations into comics, and that comics creators, scholars, and fans alike will find interest in the philosophical explorations. For that reason, the book covers a lot of ground, ranging from social questions (e.g., the ethics of comics pornography, the norms of re-coloring) to artistic questions (e.g., how to approach the relation between comics and literature or the aesthetic evaluation of comics adaptations) to ontological questions (e.g., what kinds of artifacts comics are, what kinds of entities fictional characters are) and more. (Enormous thanks are also due to Matt Strohl for pulling this roundtable together.)įirst, a lightning quick overview of our book! Our goal is not to explore philosophy through comics-that is, using the medium as a lens through which to tackle perennial philosophical questions-but instead to explore, expand, and fortify the growing field of philosophy of comics: that is, philosophical examination of the medium itself, as well as its relations to other social and artistic phenomena. ![]() ![]() It’s in this spirit that we wrote Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2022), and it’s in that same spirit that we’ve looked forward to engaging with the range of philosophers, comics scholars, and artists who graciously agreed to collaboratively engage in this roundtable. To do philosophy of comics is to engage with everything from philosophical aesthetics to cognitive science, from moral philosophy to the history of mass art, and from complex debates in metaphysics to nuanced issues in the ethics of representation. What follows is a roundtable discussion of the new book Philosophy of Comics written by Sam Cowling and Wesley Cray. Tags: ambiguity, argument, interpretation, literature, meaning, narrative, nonsense | Continue Reading →Ĭategories: Artforms, Literature, Other, Painting and Photography, The Artworld, The Philosopher's Perspective, The Philosophy World, What is Art | Below is an edited version of this conversation, which contains some disagreement, some consensus, and above all, inevitably, more questions than answers. We discussed the difference between artistic and philosophical or historical modes of knowledge production, how art engenders or generates meaning, and the relationship between meaning, sense, and “aboutness” in the experience of art.Īfter sending along a list of questions over email, the four of us met over video and spoke together for an hour and half – and could have talked even longer. Each of us brought a different perspective to the conversation. What follows is an interview by Samara Michaelson.Ī few months ago, I asked scholars John Gibson, Magdalena Ostas, and Hannah Kim to have a conversation with me about art and literature. Walking left hand holding dress, right hand at face, 1887 ![]()
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