Archaisches Lachen - Die Entstehung Einer Komischen Bilderwelt in Der Korinthischen Vasenmalerei (German, Hardcover)

The comic is crucial to every culture: mocking established values, transcending the boundaries of morals and proprieties, dodging the laws of accepted logic.Already in the Corinthian black-figure vase-painting of the 7th century, comic images hold an important position. Detlev Wannagat analyses their typology and visual strategies, starting from the grotesquely shaped a ~padded dancersa (TM), in which the original performative context of the festival and its alienation appears the most clearly.