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Dark laughter : satiric art of Oliver W. Harrington : from the Walter O. Evans collection of African-American art / edited with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge.
- Title
- Dark laughter : satiric art of Oliver W. Harrington : from the Walter O. Evans collection of African-American art / edited with an introduction by M. Thomas Inge.
- Author
- Harrington, Oliver, 1913-
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | NC1429.H333 A4 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Inge, M. Thomas
- Description
- xliii, 116 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Summary
- "It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate far from the American mainstream, he has been almost entirely overlooked by contemporary historians and scholars of African-American culture."--BOOK JACKET. "Born in 1912 and a graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, he was a prolific contributor of humorous and editorial cartoons to the black press in the 1930s and 1940s, but he achieved fame for his creation of a cartoon panel called Dark Laughter, a satire of Harlem society and featuring Bootsie, a character in the tradition of the wise fool. Bootsie became widely known and loved wherever black newspapers appeared."--BOOK JACKET. "For airing strong antiracist views Harrington was targeted during the McCarthy era, and in 1951 he was self-exiled in Paris. In 1961 he found himself trapped behind the Berlin Wall, but he chose to remain in East Germany. His powerful political cartoons were published in East German magazines and in the American Communist newspaper The Daily World. He became a favorite among students and intellectuals in the Eastern Bloc. In America he was mainly forgotten."--BOOK JACKET. "Here, selected from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African-American Art, is an omnibus of Harrington's best cartoons from the past four decades. It highlights his exceptional talent, his potent impact with editorial comment and social criticism, and his deserving of acclaim in his native land."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Caricatures and cartoons
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xliii).
- ISBN
- 0878056564
- LCCN
- ^^^93002091^
- OCLC
- 28148161
- SCSB-12519387
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library