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DARK LAUGHTER
THE SATIRIC ART OF OLIVER W. HARRINGTON |
| By: |
M. Thomas Inge (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1604733772 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781604733778 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 1993 |
| Series: |
Studies in Popular Culture Series |
| Pages: |
116 |
| Synopsis: |
It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist.Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate far from the American mainstream, he has been almost entirely overlooked by contemporary historians and scholars of African American culture.Born in 1912 and a graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, he was a prolific contributor of humorous and editorial cartoons to the black press in the 1930s and 1940s, but he achieved fame for his creation of a cartoon panel called Dark Laughter, a satire of Harlem society and featuring Bootsie, a character in the tradition of the wise fool. Bootsie became widely known and loved wherever black newspapers appeared.For airing strong anti-racist views, Harrington was targeted during the McCarthy era. And in 1951, he was self-exiled in Paris. In 1961, he found himself trapped behind the Berlin Wall. But, he chose to remain in East Germany. His powerful political cartoons were published in East German magazines and in the American Communist newspaper The Daily World. He became a favorite among students and intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc. In America he was mainly forgotten.Here, selected from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Art, is an omnibus of Harrington's best cartoons from the past four decades. It highlights his exceptional talent, his potent impact with editorial comment and social criticism, and his deserving of acclaim in his native land. |
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139 |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Mississippi |
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