Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age - Couverture rigide

Greenhill, Jennifer A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520272455 ISBN 13 : 9780520272453

Editeur : University of California Press, 2012

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her publications have appeared in Elective Affinities, Art History, and American Art. She has received research grants for Playing It Straight from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Luce Foundation, the Wyeth Foundation, the Smithsonian, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520272455
• ISBN 13: 9780520272453
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible