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SILLINESS: A SERIOUS HISTORY

Book ID/图书代码: 14058019C00001

English Summary/英文概要: Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking.

But it’s not new.

This delightful yet informative book reveals the surprisingly rich history of silliness, going all the way back to the madcap plays of Aristophanes in the fourth century BC. Medieval fools and jesters, strange ’epidemics of silliness’ in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and the charming nonsense of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, lead us to the often dark and nihilistic silliness of modern times, including Buster Keaton, Monty Python and ’Cats that Look Like Hitler’.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 搞笑不僅將我們從「常識」中解放出來,同時也暴露了常識中的錯誤、偏見和僵化。 ──西蒙·克里奇利(Simon Critchley),英國哲學家

有一天,當本書作者在逛書店時,他看到了一本書名為《搞笑的藝術》(In Praise of Silliness)的書,一道靈光擊中他腦袋:「多麼了不起的想法!我怎麼從來沒想過這個呢?」然而,當他定睛一看,原來那是Pico Iyer的《靜思的藝術》(In Praise of Stillness)。無論如何,這都是一個值得深思的題目,感謝Pico Iyer,所以我們有了這本嚴肅談論「搞笑」這件事的書。

Silliness,愚蠢、搞笑、荒誕不經,在人類的歷史和文化具有重要的地位,然而卻從來沒有人認真討論過它,在本書中,Peter Timms使出了渾身解數,他爬梳人類超過兩千年的搞笑史,從希臘時代生於雅典的搞笑奇葩阿里斯托芬、寫出《格列佛遊戲》的強納森·史威夫特、《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的路易斯卡洛爾,到華納兄弟的兔寶寶卡通,穿越古今蒐集各個時代的搞笑大師和梗!你會發現當今許多搞笑梗並不是現代人獨創,而是你的祖先早就已經想到。

作者以廣義的西方世界為主要範圍,包括歐洲、英國、美國和澳洲,如果你要說他歐洲中心主義,那他也只能慚愧地承認,不是因為亞洲人或非洲人不好笑(或不喜歡搞笑),而純粹只是因為涵蓋這些範圍已經讓他累垮!如果你覺得本書中,英文的搞笑材料位居主流,這是因為談到搞笑和愚蠢,英語確實如此!而本書中的搞笑主角也多以男性為主,這也是因為他們就是這麼搞笑!至少直到二十世紀為止都是如此,最近我們才終於有了讓女性在電視和影片中搞笑的機會。

無論如何,如果你想認真、嚴肅的了解從古至今人類如何「搞笑」這件事,拿起這本書,你將會有很多新發現! (Zoe)

Awards/获奖情况:「彼得·蒂姆斯這本充滿娛樂性的博學書,讓我們重新找回那種湧自我們內心的愚蠢的喜悅。」 ──澳大利亞作家、評論家Simon Caterson

「本書針對這個有趣、活潑且療癒的幽默形式,提出歷史性的、文化性的及主題性的分析。」 ──兒童心理醫師Dr Jon Jureidini

Praise for Silliness

’Silliness, Timms amply demonstrates, has always been with us and of us. His research is detailed, his capacity to let it tumble lightly to the page makes the read simultaneously educative and amusing.’ - Jonathon Green, Sydney Morning Herald

’A deeply literary book that is also a lot of fun to read.’ - Stephen Romei, Australian

’Peter Timms is an accomplished stylist ... He has a sharp satirical eye.’ - Sydney Morning Herald

’A witty and assured debut. Peter Timms’s stylish novel offers a coming of age story that is also a perceptive exploration of the darkness in a nation’s soul.’ - Michelle de Kretser on Asking for Trouble

About the Author/作者介绍: 彼得·蒂姆斯(Peter Timms)在墨爾本出生和接受教育,目前居住在塔斯馬尼亞州的荷巴特。1971年至1988年間,他在許多公共美術館和博物館擔任策展人,包括謝珀頓美術館、曼曼利藝術畫廊和博物館、以及雪梨動力博物館。1984年,他被授予邱吉爾獎助金赴歐洲做研究; 1994年,他獲得了澳大利亞文化協會資深作家獎助金。

自1988年以來,他一直是自由撰稿人和作家,為澳大利亞國內外的出版物做出了貢獻。他曾擔任《澳大利亞藝術月刊》的編輯五年,並曾擔任《時代》雜誌的藝術評論家和《澳大利亞人》的塔斯馬尼亞藝術評論家。他撰寫的主題包羅萬象,包括澳大利亞藝術、園藝史、自然環境和澳大利亞社會史。他出版了許多著作,包括:《荷巴特》(《新南都市》系列),《創造自然》、《當代藝術出了什麼問題?》、《澳大利亞四分之一英畝》和《私人生活:自聯邦成立以來的澳大利亞居家生活》。

Peter Timms was born and educated in Melbourne and currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

Between 1971 and 1988 he held curatorial positions in a number of public art galleries and museums, including Shepparton Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1984 for study in Europe, and an Australia Council Senior Writers’ Fellowship in 1994.

Since 1988 he has worked as a freelance journalist and author, contributing to publications both within Australia and overseas. He was editor of Art Monthly Australia for five years and has served as art critic for the Age and Tasmanian art critic for the Australian.

Peter writes on a wide range of subjects, including Australian art, garden history, the natural environment and Australian social history.

He has published a dozen books, including Hobart (in the New South Cities series), Making Nature, What’s Wrong with Contemporary Art?, Australia’s Quarter Acre, and Private Lives: Australians at home since Federation.

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