"The Art of Comics: From Cave Walls to Museum Walls", a lecture by Paul Gravett, organized within the exhibition "TO BE CONTINUED… Comics and visual culture in Croatia", will be live streamed on Thursday, March 11 at 6 p.m., via MSU Facebook page.
In broad-ranging reflections, Paul Gravett considers the changing perceptions of comics and their place and role in the histories of art, whether they are perceived as hybrid and cutting-edge or as deeply historical as far back as mankind’s earliest imagery. He also explores the questions around definition, canon and practice being raised by the ‘9th Art’ being increasingly accepted within fine art institutions worldwide.
Co-founder of Escape magazine and Comica Festival, Paul Gravett is a London-based writer, curator, critic and lecturer specialising in international comics. His books include Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics (2004), Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life (2005), Great British Comics (2006), Incredibly Strange Comics (2008), Comics Art (2013), Mangasia: The Definitive Guide to Asian Comics (2017) and Posy Simmonds (2019). He also edited 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (2011). He has curated retrospectives of Charles Schulz, Jack Kirby, Tove Jansson and Posy Simmonds and co-curated Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK for The British Library. In 2017, he curated Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics, which The Barbican Centre is touring worldwide.
