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Item Number: 120945
Title: Playing It Straight : Art and Humor in the Gilded Age
Author: Greenhill, Jennifer A
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780520272453
Description: Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012. 26cm., hardcover, 241pp., 61 illus. Summary: 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. Contents: 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. (An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
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