Playing it straight
Subtitle: art and humor in the Gilded Age
By: Jennifer A. Greenhill
Edition: 1st [edition].
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520272453
Subjects: American Art; Art and society; Themes, motives; Wit and humor in art; National characteristics, American, in art; History
Notes: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Yale University, 2007) under the title: The plague of jocularity : contesting humor in American art and culture, 1863-1893.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Winslow Homer's visual deadpan; title: Laughing with J.G. Brown, E.W. Perry, and Thomas Nast; title: William Holbrook Beard burlesques the monster museum; title: Cosmopolitan satire in Augustus Saint-Gaudens And Henry James; title: Exchanging jokes with John Haberle.