Playing it straight: art and humor in the gilded age
Auteur :
Greenhill, Jennifer A.
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520272453
Date de publication :
1 août 2012
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
771 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Looks at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profound role humor played in determining the course of culture in the Gilded Age. This title examines how ambitious artists like Winslow Homer and Augustus Saint-Gaudens rethought the place of humor in their work.