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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520272455
ISBN-139780520272453
eBay Product ID (ePID)125006849
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePlaying It Straight : Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
SubjectGeneral, American / General, History / General
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt
AuthorJennifer A. Greenhill
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-053103
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsAn 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., 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..., 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.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700.97309034
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisPlaying 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.
LC Classification NumberN8212.G74 2012
