Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age,Used

Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age,Used

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Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age offers a stunning new look at latenineteenthcentury 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 mediafrom painting and sculpture to chromolithography and architectural schemesGreenhill examines how ambitious artists like Winslow Homer and Augustus SaintGaudens 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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