« Une semaine de bonté » Max Ernst (+ MAJ Flickr)

août 5th, 2009 by Webknot

et puisque qu’il est question d’humour, je suis tombé sur un extrait d’un texte de Duchamp cité par « Alpha Auer » dans cet article

A great power; humor was a sort of savior so to speak because, before, art was such a serious thing, so pontifical that I was very happy when I discovered that I could introduce humor into it. And that was truly a period of discovery. The discovery of humor was liberation. And not humor in the sense « humorist » of humor, but « humor » humoristic of humor. Humor is something much more profound and more serious and more difficult to define. It’s not only about laughing. There’s a humor that is black humor which doesn’t inspire laughter and which doesn’t please at all. Which is a thing in itself, which is a new feeling so to speak, which follows from all sorts of things that we can’t analyze with words… …A large amount of rebellion, a large amount of derision toward the serious word… …And it’s only because of humor that you can leave, that you can free yourself.

Marcel Duchamp

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