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Black sphinx : on the comedic in modern art / [edited by John C. Welchman].

Title
Black sphinx : on the comedic in modern art / [edited by John C. Welchman].
Publication
Zurich : Jrp Ringier, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Welchman, John C.
Description
280 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
SoCCAS symposia ; v. 4.
Uniform Title
Southern California Consortium of Art Schools symposia (series) ; v. 4.
Subject
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives
  • Comic, The, in art
  • Het komische
  • Humor (grappigheden)
  • Kunst
  • Wit and humor in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Humour (1927) / Sigmund Freud -- Resonances of "raillery" / Jeffrey Minson -- Irreverent, illicit, incoherent : Belle Epoch comedy / Janet Whitmore -- Concrete comedy / David Robbins -- Bataille's laughter / Louis Kaplan -- Whoever wants to understand is invited to play / Jo Anna Issak -- Laughing at foreigners : a peculiar defense of ethnic humor / Simon Critchley -- Retreat to the private sphere : in-jokes in West German art of the 1980s / Gregory H. Williams -- Your confession booth is my soap box : on Skip Arnold / Jan Tumlir -- V-notes on parody / Jessica Chalmers --The nut doesn't fall far from the tree : a piece of work in progress / Michael Smith -- "Don't play it for laughs" : John Baldessar and conceptual comedy / John C. Welchman.
ISBN
  • 9783905770964
  • 3905770962
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries