Abstract
The article investigates the phenomenon of ontological jokes in storytelling. As an example of this, it describes the genesis and semiotics of Pavan, an avant-garde cartoon by the Swedish visual artist Elis Eriksson. The basic characteristics of Pavan, with its mix of visual simplicity and semiotic subtleties, were present already in the exhibition Indians and a cowboy in 1965. Later the three-dimensional narratives of the exhibition were transferred to the comic medium. This process is directly reflected in some ontological jokes and paradoxes in the cartoon. The Author argues that Peircean semiotics offers a necessary theoretical frame for describing such jokes and paradoxes.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities |
| Editors | Rikke Platz Cortsen, Erin La Cour, Anne Magnussen |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Pages | 44–71 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4438-7086-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| MoE publication type | A3 Part of a book or another research book |
Keywords
- Art History
- Comics
- Nordic countries
- Semiotics
- Visual Studies
- philosophy of art