Abstraction and comedy

The thesis, consisting of an extended artwork (Toy Zoo) and a theoretical text, aims to explore a concept of abstraction and relate this concept to an affect of comedy. The proposal of the thesis is that abstraction, looked at in a proper way, is funny. Abstraction is imagined not as the absence of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Nicholas
Published: Goldsmiths College (University of London) 2013
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592003