An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy, 2011 book Currently I use art institutions

Currently I use art institutions to produce and distribute work in popular culture formats that the popular culture itself isn’t producing

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An Alternative History of Twentieth-Century Comedy, 2011 book Currently I use art institutionsby David Robbins Traditionally, histories of comedy have concerned the verbal, narrative, illusionistic comedy presented on stage or screen, or in broadcast media. During the twentieth century, however, there emerged in Europe and America another, alternative form of comedy, a comedy of doing rather than saying, a nonfiction comedy which yielded prop like conceptual objects and gestures of public theater. Termed concrete comedy by David Robbins, its