Actress Tamsin Greig, of Channel 4's Black Books and Green Wing fame, gets to grips with humour in art. From conceptual artist Duchamp to Dutch performance artist Bas Jan Ader, we discuss the central role that humour has played in art over the last 100 years.
English actress Tamsin Greig (Green Room, Black Books) offers a 5 minute short course on the significance of humour to modern and contemporary art, with quick glimpses of many artworks, from Marcel Duchamp and Bas Jan Ader to Maurizio Cattelan and David Shrigley.