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Permission to laugh : humor and politics in contemporary German art
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- Creator
- Gregory H. Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226898957, 0226898954
- OCLC
- ocn739646649
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-224) and index.
- The "Cultural Turn" in 1970s West Germany -- Laughter in spite of history -- The public arrival of Witz -- Rapid-fire jokes: Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, and Albert Oehlen -- Protracted wit: Isa Genzken, Georg Herold, and Rosemarie Trockel -- In-jokes and out-jokes: constructing audiences -- Humor in Germany after the Wall
- The "cultural turn" in 1970s West Germany -- Laughter in spite of history -- The public arrival of Witz -- Rapid-fire jokes: Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, and Albert Oehlen -- Protracted wit: Isa Genzken, Georg Herold, and Rosemarie Trockel -- In-jokes and out-jokes: constructing audiences -- Humor in Germany after the Wall