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Joann (ed.) Cerrito
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The Artist's Joke (Whitechapel

Jennifer Higgie

Contemporary Artist

The Artist's Joke (Documents of Contemporary Art)

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 context...

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#9

Contemporary Artists

Muriel Emanuel

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#8

100 Contemporary Artists (Taschen 25 Anniversary)

Hans Werner Holzwarth

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#7

Contemporary Artists

Colin Naylor

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Contemporary artists

Colin (ed) NAYLOR

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The Map as Art

Katharine Harmon
Gayle Clemans

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Contemporary Artists

Colin Naylor

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Christine Weidemann, Brad Finger

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Contemporary Native American Artists

Suzanne Deats
Kitty Leaken

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Paper Cutting Book

Laura Heyenga
Rob Ryan
Natalie Avella

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