PLAYING IT STRAIGHT by Jennifer A. Greenhill ( 9780520272453 )

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Title:

PLAYING IT STRAIGHT
ART AND HUMOR IN THE GILDED AGE

By:

Jennifer A. Greenhill

Format:

Hardback

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£71.00

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ISBN 10:

0520272455

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9780520272453

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2012

Edition:

Tion ed.

Pages:

256

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

"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.

Illustrations:

12 color illustrations and 92 black-and-white photographs

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University of California Press

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