Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 372 g
Reihe: Documents of Contemporary Art
ISBN: 978-0-262-58274-2
Verlag: MIT PR
Ever since Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious appeared
in 1905, humor both light and dark has frequently surfaced as a subversive,
troubling, or liberating element in art. The Artist's Joke 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 [haceks
over z's], Jörg Heiser, Jo Anna Isaak, and Ralph Rugoff. Jennifer Higgie is the
coeditor of frieze magazine. She has published writings on such contemporary artists
as Ricky Swallow, Magnus Von Plessen, and David Noonan.Artists surveyed include
Leonora Carrington, Maurizio Cattelan, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Fischli &
Weiss, Andrea Fraser, the 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, Andy Warhol Writers includeHugo Ball, Henri
Bergson, André Breton, Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Freud, Jörg Heiser, Dave Hickey, Jo
Anna Isaak, Ralph Rugoff, Peter Schjeldahl, Sheena Wagstaff, Hamza Walker, Slavoj
Zizek
