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Playing It Straight : Art and Humor in the Gilded Age by Jennifer A. Greenhill (2012, Hardcover)

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"Playing It Straight deftly examines the often subtle and always complex role of humor in the making, exhibition, and patronage of art. This book sheds light not only on the artists and artworks analyzed, but on the historical period as a whole.".

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520272455

ISBN-139780520272453

eBay Product ID (ePID)125006849

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePlaying It Straight : Art and Humor in the Gilded Age

SubjectGeneral, American / General, History / General

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt

AuthorJennifer A. Greenhill

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight27.3 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2011-053103

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsAn 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., 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 the 20th centh century..., 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.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal700.97309034

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Winslow Homer's Visual Deadpan Chapter 2. Laughing with J.G. Brown, E.W. Perry, and Thomas Nast Chapter 3. William Holbrook Beard Burlesques the Monster Museum Chapter 4. Cosmopolitan Satire in Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Henry James Chapter 5. Exchanging Jokes with John Haberle Epilogue Notes List of Illustrations Index

SynopsisPlaying 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.

LC Classification NumberN8212.G74 2012