Laughing as a Foreign Language*
- Robin Rhode: Who Saw Who*
- Documenting Disposable People*
- Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture
- Unpopular Culture - Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection
- Laughing as a Foreign Language*
- The Painting of Modern Life – 1960s to Now*
- Antony Gormley - Blind Light*
- No Such Thing As Society*
- Cult Fiction: Art and Comics*
- Mind-Forg'd Manacles – William Blake and Slavery*
- A Secret Service: art, compulsion, concealment
- Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS
- Rembrandt as printmaker*
- You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference
Simon Critchley, Mami Kataoka
240 x 190 mm 152 pp softback
7 b&w, 159 colour illustrations
978 1 85332 266 2
£17.99
www.cornerhouse.org/books/isbn/9781853322662
Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range of media, including video, photography and interactive installation. In an era of globalisation, this book asks whether humour can act as a catalyst for understanding the unfamiliar. Fully illustrated, and with essays by Mami Kataoka (Hayward International Curator) and Simon Critchley (Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York), this book investigates the whole spectrum of humour in contemporary art, from jokes, gags and slapstick to irony, wit and satire.
Image credit: Julian Rosefeldt Clown, 2005, 3-screen film installation, Super16mm, transferred onto DVD, Loop 11 min © the artist 2007, courtesy Arndt & Partner Berlin / Zurich and Max Wigram Gallery London.
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