The Clown in Contemporary Art
“Has the horror and the terror of the last years, of Dachau and Hiroshima, and the sickening shame of it all, left us without recourse to the ritual of laughter, by which we might be cleansed? Has life been so flattened out by the industrial juggernaut of senseless speed and cluttered claptrap that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1967
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Theology today
Year: 1967, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 318-328 |
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| Summary: | “Has the horror and the terror of the last years, of Dachau and Hiroshima, and the sickening shame of it all, left us without recourse to the ritual of laughter, by which we might be cleansed? Has life been so flattened out by the industrial juggernaut of senseless speed and cluttered claptrap that men can utter only one note, like a mechanical toy, and the complex music of humor, that rare blend of the solemn and the foolish, of the tender and the cruel, cannot be voiced? … Would one be treading on too holy ground, would one be speaking offensively, if he were to suggest that the reason there is so little space for a Doppelger, a clown, may be the same reason for there being so little space for a Christ? He, too, was incognito, disguised in the flesh, of no reputation.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057366702400307 |