Paul Lopes is an Associate Professor at Colgate University. His areas of interest include art worlds, popular culture, mass media and cultural studies. Transforming culture from the margins best defines the major theme in his research and writings...
Paul Lopes is an Associate Professor at Colgate University. His areas of interest include art worlds, popular culture, mass media and cultural studies. Transforming culture from the margins best defines the major theme in his research and writings. His first book, The Rise of a Jazz Art World, for example, explores how a popular art form at the margins of cultural legitimacy in the first half of the twentieth century was radically transformed in meaning and practice by musicians, critics, producers and others to become a new hybrid form of art between the popular and the high. He is writing a book on a similar revolt against official culture in the world of comic books, Demanding Respect: Transforming the American Comic Book. This book explores the various strategies in the comic book art world to eliminate the stigma of this art form as a sub-literate, visually simple, low brow art. He explores how artists, publishers, critics, fans and others are transforming the comic book into a diverse, serious and respected art form.
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The Arts in Society
