Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington

by Oliver W. Harrington

Book Overview

It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist.

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.

Born in 1912 and a graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, he was a prolific contributor of humorous and editorial cartoons...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604733772
• ISBN13: 9781604733778
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"