the nice modernist » Art http://nicemodernist.com Thu, 13 May 2010 03:47:03 +0000 en hourly 1 On the Meaning of the Comic http://nicemodernist.com/2010/03/on_the_meaning_of_the_comic/ http://nicemodernist.com/2010/03/on_the_meaning_of_the_comic/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:12:55 +0000 nicemod http://nicemodernist.com/?p=84 “[Comedy cannot] produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of the soul that is thoroughly calm and unruffled. Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion.” Yet it “does not exist outside the pale of what is strictly human. A landscape may be beautiful, charming and sublime, or insignificant and ugly; it will never be laughable.“I — Henri Bergson, via Sally O’Reilly, ‘Things Fall Apart,’ Frieze Magazine.

  1. Henri Bergson, ‘Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic’, 1899; repr. Macmillan & Co., London, 1935, pp. 3–21
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  1. Henri Bergson, ‘Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic’, 1899; repr. Macmillan & Co., London, 1935, pp. 3–21
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Two examples of a superb four-colour screenprint in progress by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes design studio. Many of his prints are for sale, in limited runs, in his online shop.

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Two examples of a superb four-colour screenprint in progress by Jason Munn of The Small Stakes design studio. Many of his prints are for sale, in limited runs, in his online shop.

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