Emotion in art? of course! But why and how? I mean, how can humour in art lead to somethign deeper? Think about Kant: he says, sagely, that art has to include a "purposiveness without a purpose". It has to have a purpose, yet not have one at the same time.
Crazy huh? But many people since have agreed, and a whole swathe of Continental thinkin gsince has relied heavily on "antinomies" or oxymorons.
There's a "gap" between purposfulness and purpose, and art fits uncannily within. Lacan couldn never have discovered his formulation of the Gaze without this kind of thinking.
Humour in art amplifies the gap, catches us unawares, makes us suddenly this uncanny gaze. Slips us up.
Yet too often artists dicount humour.
Here are a couple of drawings I did a while back. One ended up on the front cover of Australia's oldest literary journal. Hey, I think I managed to get the first ever erect penis there!
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