What’s So Funny? Senses of Humor in 19th-Century American Visual Culture
Saturday, February 17, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Sarah Burns, Indiana University; Jennifer Greenhill, Yale University
Dirty Laundry: Dark Humor in Raphaelle Peale’s Venus Rising From the Sea—A Deception
Lauren Lessing, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Mary Schafer, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“A Striking Likeness”: Politics, Pugilism, and Pictorial Humor in Antebellum America
Ross Barrett, Boston University
Photography’s Blacks and Whites: Racial Humor in 19th-Century Photographic Discourse
Tanya Sheehan, Columbia University
Undermining the Foundations: Architecture, Caricature, Modernity
Preston Thayer, Radford University Art Museum
Laughing Matters: Caricature and Criticism in American Art Schools
Heather Campbell Coyle, University of Delaware