Comics Unmasked : Art and Anarchy in the UK
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 24753040
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- British Library
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK is the first extensive exhibition on comics and popular literature and their history hosted by the British Library taken from its extensive collections. Conceived in five sections, the exhibitions includes exhibits from 1400 to the present day and covers all aspects of comics production including authorship, design, consumption and distribution. Goodbrey curated the final part of the exhibition that explores the digitization of the comic form showing how digitization prompts not only a wider accessibility and new opportunities for authors and designers, but also new modes of reading and narrative structure that began to overtake the industry from the late 1990s onwards. Working alongside the digital design company Sequential, Goodbrey’s contribution also explores the impact of digitization on both webcomics and the graphic novel and digitisation’s’ capacity to revive and disseminate what have subsequently come to be seen as iconic publications for the past. Goodbrey worked with the Library to design interactive interfaces offering the public a first-hand opportunity to experience and interact with comics in digitized form and translated some iconic print-based forms into an interactive format. The exhibition was been funded by Nesta, the Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The output is represented here by catalogue the 2014 exhibition.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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