Laughter as a Way of Ushering in Modern Urban Planning
2011; Société française d'histoire urbaine; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2101-003X
Autores Tópico(s)Public Spaces through Art
ResumoIn France and the rest of Europe, the 1950s were a decisive point in urban modernity. These years were characterized by the postwar reconstruction and a new lifestyle often called “Americanization.” Several emotions express the depth of transformations. Laughter constitutes a form, both individual and collective, of distancing and appropriation of a moving reality. This paper examines laughter from the perspectives of the new mass culture by considering comic works as forms of reception of modern urbanism. The corpus is made up of French and Belgian comic works and burlesque works created around 1958, which were categorized as “popular culture” in consideration of their success and their aura. The paper studies different art works contextualized in the social events they depict, among others Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati and “Salon des arts menagers” comics by Andre Franquin and the International Exhibition of Brussels (called “Expo ’58”).
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