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| Author | : Walter S. Gibson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2006-02 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520245210 |
In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humour.
| Author | : Phillip Glenn |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1441164790 |
Explores the nature, occurrence and uses of laugher in a range of different kinds of interactions across a variety of languages.
| Author | : Noel Grace Schiller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780542790751 |
Artists, poets and their publics during the early modern period took seriously the Horatian dictum that, like poetry, art should both instruct and delight its viewer. This study examines the capacity of images to entertain their audiences by investigating how artists employed depicted laughter to engage their viewers. By the turn of the seventeenth century, a laughing face had long been recognized to have a persuasive power to produce a like response in the beholder. Laughing figures were employed to an unprecedented degree by artists in the circles of Karel van Mander, Frans Hals, and Gerard van Honthorst---painters who created innovative new pictorial subjects and experimented with depicting facial expressions and strong emotions during the years 1600-1640. The laughing painting or print is treated here as a social agent, and the act of viewing understood as a particular kind of ludic exchange. Whatever their moral implications, images, it is argued, preserve traces of the ways in which the viewing of art resembled other cultural interactions, such as jesting practices, and thereby can help us understand the comic function of art in the Golden Age.
| Author | : Milan Kundera |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2023-03-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0063290693 |
"An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.
| Author | : Jo Anna Isaak |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1134895275 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Scott Weems |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2014-03-04 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0465080804 |
An entertaining tour of the science of humor and laughter Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny -- and why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model. Humor arises from inner conflict in the brain, he argues, and is part of a larger desire to comprehend a complex world. Showing that the delight that comes with "getting" a punchline is closely related to the joy that accompanies the insight to solve a difficult problem, Weems explores why surprise is such an important element in humor, why computers are terrible at recognizing what's funny, and why it takes so long for a tragedy to become acceptable comedic fodder. From the role of insult jokes to the benefit of laughing for our immune system, Ha! reveals why humor is so idiosyncratic, and why how-to books alone will never help us become funnier people. Packed with the latest research, illuminating anecdotes, and even a few jokes, Ha! lifts the curtain on this most human of qualities. From the origins of humor in our brains to its life on the standup comedy circuit, this book offers a delightful tour of why humor is so important to our daily lives.
| Author | : Lee Siegel |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Indic wit and humor |
| ISBN | : 9788120805484 |
| Author | : Albrecht Classen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 864 |
| Release | : 2010-09-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110245485 |
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
| Author | : Sheri Klein |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2006-11-22 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0857724630 |
This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Sheri Klein praises the contemporary artist as 'clown' - often overlooked in favour of the role of artist as 'serious' commentator - and takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, 'The Hairy Who', Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz and many more. She seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards - and highlights too the pleasures of the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch.
| Author | : Simon Dickie |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2011-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0226146189 |
A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.
