Humor in Global Contemporary Art

List of Plates
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Mette Gieskes (Radboud University, the Netherlands) and Gregory Williams (Boston University, USA)

Part One: Africa and The Middle East
1. Negotiated Space: Visual Satire in Contemporary Diasporic Nigerian Art, Yomi Ola (Spelman College, USA)
2. Lerato Shadi's Sugar & Salt: Laughter beyond Languages, beyond Generations, in South Africa and in the World, Katja Gentric (University of the Free State, South Africa and Centre Georges Chevrier, France)
3. Humorous Art Practices in the Contemporary Middle East: Reacting to Cultural Stereotypification, Hamid Keshmirshekan (SOAS, UK)
4. Humor and the Enactment of Statehood: Khalil Rabah and Anticipatory Aesthetics in Palestine, Chrisoula Lionis (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Part Two: Asia and Oceania
5. Crossing the Line: Artistic Jests about the Border Struggles of Pakistan and Palestine, Atteqa Ali (Zayed University, UAE)
6. Humor/Youmo in Chinese Contemporary Art and Online Visual Culture: Oblique Resistances to Authority and the Traces of Confucian-literati Aesthetics, Paul Gladston (University of New South Wales, Australia)
7. We Require Clear Slogans: Humor in the Russian Monstration, Maria Sidorkina (University of Texas, USA) and Jacob Stewart-Halevy (Tufts University, USA)
8. The Trickster, Provocateur, Clown, and Joker: Radical Humor in Contemporary Indonesian Art, Michelle Antoinette (Monash University, Australia)
9. "It's Funny Now, Aye": Humor and Contemporary Art from Oceania, Caroline Vercoe (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Part Three: South and North America
10. In the State of Play: Slapstick Enactments and Carnivalesque Humor as Political Subversion in Brazilian Contemporary Art, Denise Carvalho (Independent Curator and Critic, USA)
11. Reir por no llorar: Black Humor in Contemporary Venezuelan Feminist Art, Tatiana Flores (Rutgers, USA)
12. Mordacious Humor and Happy Oblivion in Columbia: Bernardo Salcedo's Distinguishing Features, Gina McDaniel Tarver (Texas State University, USA)
13. The Necessity of Jimmie Durham's Jokes, Richard Shiff (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Part Four: Europe
14. Droll "Observations": Roman Ondak's Comic Displacements, Sophie Knezic (University of Melbourne, Australia)
15. The Ersatz Art School and Councils within Councils: Playful Dutch Institutions of Critique in the 1960s, Janna Schoenberger (Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands)
16. Zizek's Joke: Humor and Over-identification in Post-Yugoslav Art, Marko Ilic (UCL, UK)
17. Aesthetic Incongruity: Art and Humor in Post-Independence Azerbaijan, Monica Steinberg (University of Southern California, USA)

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• História da Arte e estilos do design: desde ~ 1900
• Teoria de arte
• Estudos cultirais

humour; comedy; political art; protest; irony; pastiche