Playing It Straight

Art and Humor in the Gilded Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

"Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age" offers a stunning new look at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profound role humor played in determining the course of culture in the Gilded Age. By showing how complex humorous strategies such as deadpan and burlesque operate in a range of media - from painting and sculpture to chromolithography and architectural schemes - Greenhill examines how ambitious artists like Winslow Homer and Augustus Saint-Gaudens rethought the place of humor in their work and devised strategies to both conform to and slyly undermine developing senses of "serious" culture. Exhibiting an awareness of the emerging requirements of serious art but maintaining an investment in humor, they played it straight.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-01
Mått:178 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520272453

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Mer om författaren

Jennifer Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her publications have appeared in Elective Affinities, Art History, and American Art. She has received research grants for Playing It Straight from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Luce Foundation, the Wyeth Foundation, the Smithsonian, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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"An accomplished and fascinating book... It is one that will quickly become essential to any scholar looking to understand the art and culture of Gilded Age America." -- Peter Messent Journal of American Studies "Greenhill offers a serious, intricate, and significant study of different types of humor operating in American visual arts from the Civil War to the turn of the 20th centh century..." -- J. Simon CHOICE Magazine

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Winslow Homer's Visual Deadpan Chapter 2. Laughing with J.G. Brown, E.W. Perry, and Thomas Nast Chapter 3. William Holbrook Beard Burlesques the Monster Museum Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Satire in Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Henry James Chapter 5. Exchanging Jokes with John Haberle Epilogue Notes List of Illustrations Index

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