Outsider, Art and Humour
Taylor & Francis
The Outsider, Art and HumourAuthor(s): Paul Clements\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367468224, 978-0367468224\nSynopsis\nThis cross-disciplinary book, situated on the periphery of culture, employs humour to better comprehend the arts, the outsider and exclusion, illuminating the ever-changing social landscape, the vagaries of taste and limits of political correctness. \n\nEach chapter deals with specific themes and approaches from the construct of outsider and complexity of humour, to Outsider Art and spaces using various theoretical and analytical methods. Paul Clements draws on humour, especially from visual arts and culture (and to a lesser extent literature, film, music and performance), as a tool of ridicule, amongst other discourses, employed by the powerful but also as a weapon to satirize them. These ambiguous representations vary depending on context, often assimilated then reinterpreted in a game of.
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