El arte parodiado

In the contemporary world, parody has frequently accompanied the reception of art, historically associated with seriousness. This book analyzes the phenomenon as a humorous resource, during a period in which it was omnipresent in Spanish cultural and political life through the press. The objective is to recognize how, why, for what, when and with what consequences the artistic imaginary attracted the attention of graphic humorists and aroused so much attention among newspaper readers. Humor always appears linked to the duality and relativism of our position in an unstable world. If everything that is joked about contains a taboo, the use of the world of art as an object of laughter reveals the fears of its misunderstanding and, at the same time, the fascination it arouses. This duality is one more of the unfolding and constant changes of position of the human being, linked to an insecurity due to the loss of a canon: the one who laughs is the object of laughter, the observer is observed, power becomes counter-power, the serious becomes comical. Ultimately, laughter is ambiguous. Who knows if what makes us laugh today will make us cry tomorrow.