Permission to laugh
Subtitle: humor and politics in contemporary German art
By: Gregory H. Williams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780226898957
Subjects: German wit and humor; Art; Wit and humor in art; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Cultural Turn" in 1970s West Germany; title: Laughter in spite of history; title: The public arrival of Witz; title: Rapid-fire jokes: Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, and Albert Oehlen; title: Protracted wit: Isa Genzken, Georg Herold, and Rosemarie Trockel; title: In-jokes and out-jokes: constructing audiences; title: Humor in Germany after the Wall.