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Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
Jennifer A. Greenhill
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Description for Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
Hardback. Looks at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profound role humor played in determining the course of culture in the Gilded Age. This title examines how ambitious artists like Winslow Homer and Augustus Saint-Gaudens rethought the place of humor in their work. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 color illustrations and 92 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 776.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272453
SKU
V9780520272453
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About Jennifer A. Greenhill
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.
Reviews for Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more