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1 STORYTELLING AND HUMOR Erwin Wurm, One Minute Sculpture, 1997

2 ART & STORYTELLING The caves of Lascaux, B.C.

3 WHAT IS STORY?

4 WHAT IS STORY?

5 WHAT IS STORY??

6 WHAT IS STORY??

7 WHAT IS STORY??

8 WHAT IS STORY??

9 WHAT IS STORY??

10 ART & STORYTELLING Duccio, Madonna Enthroned, 1308

11 Rembrant, Anatomy of Dr. Nicholaes Van Tulp, 1632 ART & STORYTELLING

12 MODERNISM AND NARRATIVE

13 MODERNISM AND NARRATIVE

14 MODERNISM AND NARRATIVE Piet Mondrian, Composition Number 7, 1913

15 Grand narrative or meta-narrative is a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard in his classic 1979 work The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, in which he describes grand narrative as master ideas that legitimize codes and values in the society.

16 Grand narrative or meta-narrative is a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard in his classic 1979 work The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, in which he describes grand narrative as master ideas that legitimize codes and values in the society.

17 Grand narrative or meta-narrative is a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard in his classic 1979 work The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, in which he describes grand narrative as master ideas that legitimize codes and values in the society.

18 POSTMODERNISM AND NARRATIVE In Postmodern narrative the important thing is not the story but how it is told! David Salle, Rips in the Mirror, 1998

19 Fredric Jameson Pastiche is the governing principle of of the Postmodern narrative. It is different than old-fashioned narrative, mainly because its lack of a clear referent. This means a disproportion between what you see and what you expect to see.

20 Pastiche is based on Imitation and humor. Its referent is less obvious and its purpose is less evident.

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27 WHAT IS HUMOR?

28 WHAT IS HUMOR? SUPERIORITY THEORY Based on the idea that laughter occurs primarily as a result of a feeling of superiority to someone else. being stupid enough not to see where the pavement ends, or that there is a paving stone in my way. - Baudelaire, Of the Essence of Laughter

29 WHAT IS HUMOR? RELIEF THEORY Involuntary discharge of a tension caused by an interplay between conscious and unconscious. The psychic energy normally expended in the suppression of inappropriately sexually oriented thoughts suddenly, in joking, becomes superfluous, and as such needs to be discharged. - Freud s Relief Theory of Humor

30 WHAT IS HUMOR? THEORY OF INCONGRUITY Humor is generated by a sudden interruption to the normal flow of things. Laughter is the result of surprising disproportion between what one expects and what one sees. Whatever is to arouse lively, convulsive laughter must contain something absurd (hence something that the understanding cannot like for its own sake). Laughter is the affect that arises if a tense expectation is transformed into nothing. - Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement

31 Erwin Wurm, Truck Erwin Wurm, Telekinetically Bent VW Van

32 Pastiche is based on imitation and humor. Its referent is less obvious and its purpose is less evident.

33 Pastiche is based on imitation and humor. Its referent is less obvious and its purpose is less evident. Narratives characterized by pastiche are no longer about direct experience or the real world, they are stories of vaguely remembered or misremembered fictions about the past and future. biased incomplete subversive inconclusive non-linear vague

34 POSTMODERN STORYTELLING biased incomplete subversive inconclusive non-linear David Lynch, Twin Peaks,

35 POSTMODERN STORYTELLING biased incomplete subversive inconclusive non-linear David Fincher, Fight Club, 1999

36 POSTMODERN STORYTELLING biased incomplete subversive inconclusive non-linear Alejandro González Iñárritu, 21 Grams, 2003

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38 Cindy Sherman, Film Still Series,

39 Cindy Sherman, Film Still Series,

40 Cindy Sherman, Film Still Series,

41 Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998

42 Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2002

43 Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 1998

44 Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2007

45 Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2002

46 Anna Gaskell, from Wonder, 1996

47 Anna Gaskell, from Wonder, 1996

48 Anna Gaskell, from Wonder, 1996

49 Anna Gaskell, from Wonder, 1996

50 Matthew Barney, Cremaster Cycle,

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