The artist´s joke

Ever since the Dadaists, humour in one or more of its guises -absurd, ironic, tragi-comic, mordant, gothically dark, deadpan, camp or kitsch- has frequently surfaced as a subversive, troubling or liberating element in art. This anthology traces humour´s role in transforming the practice and experience of art, from the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, through Fluxus and Pop, to the diverse, often uncategorizable works of some of the most influential artists today.