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Author: Liesbeth Decan ,
Mieke Bleyen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Imprint: Leuven University Press
Volume: 26
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.645kg
ISBN: 9789462701656
ISBN 10: 9462701652
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 06 March 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
En examinant l'humour en photographie, ce volume propose un parcours dans l'histoire du médium et offre l'occasion aux lecteurs de multiples potentialités de découvrir, ou redécouvrir, des corpus souvent négligés. L'intérêt de cette réflexion collective réside finalement plus dans la revalorisation de ces objets photographiques, culturels et artistiques considérés comme anecdotiques que dans une véritable conceptualisation de ce que serait un humour performatif. Valérie Morisson, Focales n° 4: Photographies mises en espaces, mis à jour le 19/05/2020, URL: https: //focales.univ-st-etienne.fr/index.php?id=2792 The book is well designed, with black-and-white illustrations in every chapter. The essays are bookended by colourful (and humorous) 'artist's pages' by Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich, demonstrating the editors' stated commitment to giving the book 'both a theoretical and practice-based component'(p.22). Stills from Oltheten's La Défense, The Venturing Gaze, which open the book (Fig.9), exemplify the implicit self-reflexivity of much photographic practice. Oltheten includes subtitles of humorous comments made by the people photographed, making subjects of the camera and the photographer themselves. Bleyen's and Decan's book will be useful to scholars and those with an interest in photography and humour theory, as well as individuals interested more generally in the affective turn in art criticism. Seth Graham, The Burlington Magazine 162 March 2020
162 The book is well designed, with black-and-white illustrations in every chapter. The essays are bookended by colourful (and humorous) 'artist's pages' by Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich, demonstrating the editors' stated commitment to giving the book 'both a theoretical and practice-based component'(p.22). Stills from Oltheten's La Défense, The Venturing Gaze, which open the book (Fig.9), exemplify the implicit self-reflexivity of much photographic practice. Oltheten includes subtitles of humorous comments made by the people photographed, making subjects of the camera and the photographer themselves. Bleyen's and Decan's book will be useful to scholars and those with an interest in photography and humour theory, as well as individuals interested more generally in the affective turn in art criticism. Seth Graham, The Burlington Magazine March 2020
Author Information
Liesbeth Decan is a lecturer and researcher at LUCA School of Arts-Campus Sint-Lukas Brussels and the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture. Mieke Bleyen is Researcher at the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography and the Institute of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven.
