Playing it straight : art and humor in the Gilded Age / Jennifer A. Greenhill
出版項
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012
版本
1st ed
說明
x, 241 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
附註
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 (p. 169-222) and index
Winslow Homer's visual deadpan -- Laughing with J.G. Brown, E.W. Perry, and Thomas Nast -- William Holbrook Beard burlesques the monster museum -- Cosmopolitan satire in Augustus Saint-Gaudens And Henry James -- Exchanging jokes with John Haberle
