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The Artists Joke (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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Jokes and humor in avantgarde and contemporary art, as discussed by writers and artists ranging from Freud and Picasso to Andrea Fraser, the Guerilla Girls, and Slavoj iek.Ever since Freuds 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 Artists Joke surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avantgarde and contemporary artists. The texts collected in this new reader from Londons Whitechapel Gallery examine what Andr Breton called the lightning bolt of the unsettlingly comic, as seen in the anarchic wordplay of Duchamp, Picasso, the Dadaists, and Surrealists; Pops fetish for kitsch and the comic strip; Bruce Naumans sinister clowns and twisted puns; Richard Princes joke paintings; art ambushed by feminist wit, from the Dadaism of Hannah Hch in the 1920s to the politicized conceptualism of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger in the 1980s; the serenely uncanny in Mike Kelleys installations and the risibly grotesque in Paul McCarthys; 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, Hlne Cixous, Slavoj iek, Jrg 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 Hch, 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 Strm, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol Writers includeHugo Ball, Henri Bergson, Andr Breton, Hlne Cixous, Sigmund Freud, Jrg Heiser, Dave Hickey, Jo Anna Isaak, Ralph Rugoff, Peter Schjeldahl, Sheena Wagstaff, Hamza Walker, Slavoj iek
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