Chickens show off their human side in Tanen's irresistible dioramas. With more personality than most people have to spare, the New York artist's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, and annoyingly crowded yoga classes.
Surprisingly human, these chickens face a series of dilemmas in exquisitely crafted, miniature settings. Whether playing the online dating game, dreaming of a better life, or dealing with uncooperative children, the chickens encounter everyday troubles and triumphs in this follow-up to "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same."
The first book on the world's best-selling artist covers his life biography, career, and his most recent Art Tour and party-fests. Included are photos of many of his closest friends, fans, and collectors; including, Criss Angel, Gloria Estafan, Cristina Applegate, Ozzy Osbourne, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jay Leno, Vince Neil, and more. Printed in ...
he fuer wh is a funny, yet very ser. Six comprehensive chapters define, examine and illustrate the various types of visual humour, extending from wit and whimsy, to parody and satire, to comic nonsense and Surrealism. The text focuses on twentieth-century studio art and design, and also explores caricature and cartooning. Learn what makes visual ...
2007 Eisner Award nominee, Best Reality-Based Work: the long-awaited collection of strips, characterized by bold, sensual brushstrokes and striking images of powerful, butt-kicking women. Forney's collaborators range from her Grandma Florence to comedian Margaret Cho.
In a time of increasing globalisation, this book questions whether humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with. Do laughter and humour transcend difference and language, or are they ...
From the first satiric cave drawings to the quirky humour of Push Pin studios, Design Humor explores what makes wit and humour such important tools in graphic design. Compiling some of the most clever, ironic, and acerbic pieces from annuals, exhibitions, and designer's drawers, this entertaining sourcebook demonstrates how to communicate ...
Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century, was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings and drawings are thought to ...
In this fresh, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?" Looking at Laughter examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exquisitely sophisticated and from the playful to the deadly ...
By tweaking accepted conventions through visual humour - whimsy, wit, irony, parody, satire, and nonsense - artists challenge us to view the world from a different standpoint. In Artful Jesters, Nicholas Roukes provides an historical perspective on the perpetual use of humour in art, showcasing 50 highly creative contemporary artists whose ...
The art and architecture of the Middle Ages teem with humour. Everywhere you look in medieval creations, there is the most unexpected, crazy and risque wit. From the painting of a poacher roasted over a spit by a rabbit to an image of angels and devils weighing souls and both cheating, Janetta Rebold Benton has brought together some of the most ...
Jokes and humor in avant-garde and contemporary art, as discussed by writers and artists ranging from Freud and Picasso to Andrea Fraser, Guerilla Girls, and Slavoj Zizek.
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