Black Sphinx : On the Comedic in Modern Art (English)

Edited by John C. Welchman. Texts by Jessica Chalmers, Simon Critchley, Jo Anna Issak, Louis Kaplan, Jeffrey Minson, David Robbins, Michael Smith, Jan Tumlir, John C. Welchman, Gregory H. Williams

ISBN 10: 3905770962 / ISBN 13: 9783905770964

Published by JRP | Ringier, 2010

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Z : 17 x 24 cm, 280 pages, 53 b/w illustrations - 12 essays about the comedic in art. Philosopher Simon Critchley and art historian Janet Whitmore discuss the modern origins of comedic genres and some of the key theoretical articulations of laughter and wit by Freud, Bergson and others and the special zone of outlandish humor demarcated by the cabarets, café concerts and ephemeral publications of Montmartre in the 1880s and 1890s. John C. Welchman focuses on John Baldessari, one of the fountainheads for the new permissibility of humor in art in the 1960s as the hegemonies of modernist seriousness withered away, while performer, playwright and former V-Girl, Jessica Chalmers, and writer and curator, Jo Anna Isaak, discuss the relation between comedy and gender. Finally, artist and writer David Robbins reports on his decade long investigation into the comedy in objects, as video, performance and installation artist Michael Smith reflects on his hilariously awkward and regressive journeys with alter persona "Mike.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Sphinx : On the Comedic in Modern Art (English)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3905770962
• ISBN 13: 9783905770964
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Contemporary art
  • Essay

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Synopsis

Black Sphinx collects 12 essays on comedy in contemporary art by leading philosophers, art historians and theorists. Philosopher Simon Critchley and art historian Janet Whitmore consider the origins of comedic genres and survey some of the key theoretical articulations of laughter and wit, by Freud, Bergson and others; John C. Welchman focuses on John Baldessari, a touchstone for the revival of humor in art in the 1960s; performer, playwright and former V-Girl Jessica Chalmers and writer and curator Jo Anna Issak, discuss the relation between comedy and gender; finally, artist and writer David Robbins reports on his decade-long investigation into the comedic properties of objects, while video and performance artist Michael Smith reflects on his hilariously awkward and regressive journeys with his alter persona "Mike." Black Sphinx is based on the fourth Southern California Consortium of Art Schools symposium, held at the Hammer Museum.