Playing It Straight - Art and Humor in the Gilded Age (Hardcover, Tion Ed.)

"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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Jennifer A. Greenhill
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
Edition:	Tion Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-27245-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
LSN:	0-520-27245-5
Barcode:	9780520272453

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