The artist's joke / edited by Jennifer Higgie.

London : Whitechapel ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007.

238 pages ; 21 cm

Documents of contemporary art

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.

9780262582742 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0262582740 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780854881567 (Whitechapel)
0854881565 (Whitechapel)

Wit and humor in art.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Humour par l'image.
Arts 20e siècle.
Humour dans l'art.
Arts, Modern
Humor (grappigheden)
Kunst.
Artes.
Humor.
Arte moderna.
Humor i konsten.

Essay
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Higgie, Jennifer, editor.
Documents of contemporary art series.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 255113
Cote: BIB 185199
Statut: Disponible