The Artist's JokeJennifer Higgie Surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists. The texts collected in this new reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery examine what André Breton called the "lightning bolt" of the unsettlingly comic, as seen in the anarchic wordplay of Duchamp, Picasso, the Dadaists, and Surrealists; Pop's fetish for kitsch and the comic strip; Bruce Nauman's sinister clowns and twisted puns; Richard Prince's joke paintings; art ambushed by feminist wit, from the Dadaism of Hannah Höch in the 1920s to the politicized conceptualism of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger in the 1980s; the serenely uncanny in Mike Kelley's installations and the risibly grotesque in Paul McCarthy's; and the strangely comic scenarios of artists as various as Maurizio Cattelan, Andrea Fraser, Raymond Pettibon, and David Shrigley. Artists' writings are accompanied and contextualized by the work of critics and thinkers including Freud, Bergson, Hélène Cixous, Slavoj Zizek, Jörg Heiser, Jo Anna Isaak, and Ralph Rugoff. Artists surveyed: Leonora Carrington, Maurizio Cattelan, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Fischli & Weiss, Andrea Fraser, Guerilla Girls, Hannah Höch, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, Raymond Pettibon, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Arnulf Rainer, Ad Reinhardt, Ed Ruscha, Carolee Schneemann, David Shrigley, Robert Smithson, Annikia Ström, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol. Writers: Hugo Ball, Henri Bergson, André Breton, Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Freud, Jörg Heiser, Dave Hickey, Jo Anna Isaak, Ralph Rugoff, Peter Schjeldahl, Sheena Wagstaff, Hamza Walker, and Slavoj Zizek.--Publisher's website. |
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... Fischli We have never made an explicit statement on this . De facto , of course , it is the case , but the joint ... Fischli and Weiss the Tom & Jerry of art ? Fischli These two types exist not only in comedy but also in novels , in ...
... Fischli We have never made an explicit statement on this . De facto , of course , it is the case , but the joint ... Fischli and Weiss the Tom & Jerry of art ? Fischli These two types exist not only in comedy but also in novels , in ...
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... Fischli Correct . [ ... ] Heiser In the 1980s , discussion on art , in the German - speaking world at least , was dominated by catch - phrases such as ' intensity ' and ' neo - Expressionism ' . Against this backdrop did you experience ...
... Fischli Correct . [ ... ] Heiser In the 1980s , discussion on art , in the German - speaking world at least , was dominated by catch - phrases such as ' intensity ' and ' neo - Expressionism ' . Against this backdrop did you experience ...
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... Fischli And there's an element of comedy in your identifying this heroic theme in the pathetic falling - over of objects . I see it too , and I think you're right , but if that is the case , then it has an element of comedy in itself ...
... Fischli And there's an element of comedy in your identifying this heroic theme in the pathetic falling - over of objects . I see it too , and I think you're right , but if that is the case , then it has an element of comedy in itself ...
Contents
PLAYFUL JUDGEMENTS | 12 |
PLAYFUL JUDGEMENTS020 | 20 |
Sigmund Freud Jokes and Their Relation to | 25 |
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