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Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
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ISBN10: 0520272455
ISBN13: 9780520272453
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Aug 1 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780520272453
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Aug 1 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
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.
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