Contributions

  • Hrsg.: Lunn, Felicity - Contributor

Publication

2005 - JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, Z urich

Language

English

Word Count

57,750 words, Guess

Page Count

231 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing4924927

Classifications

  • LCCN8212 .W5 2005

Description

"From Dada to Fluxus and Conceptual art to the 1990s, humour is often at the heart of art as much as a visual strategy as an intellectual process. Based on an exhibition, this anthology does not try to illustrate the grotesque, the satirical, or the comic, but to separate the mechanisms of humour. Since Freud, humour is generally envisaged as a manifestation of the unconscious, like a kind of negotiation with repressed elements or collective fears. It is this subversive and social role of humour that is the subject of enquiry by artists such as Vito Acconci, Anna & Bernhard Blume, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fischli & Weiss, Martin Kippenberger, Peter Land, Piero Manzoni, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Martin Parr, Sigmar Polke and Jean-Frédéric Schnyder"--Publisher.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • When humour becomes painful. Exhibition, Migros-Museum f ur Gegenwartskunst Zurich, August 27 - October 30, 2005JRP Ringier Kunstverlag2005

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