Code: 01237856

Playing It Straight

Name: Playing It Straight
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 01237856
Price: 120.06 EUR
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Author: Jennifer A Greenhill
ISBN: 9780520272453

by Jennifer A Greenhill

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: University of California Press, 2012
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"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.