Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Abler, Thomas S., George Hamell, and Arthur Einhorn, “Guy Johnson, Benjamin West, and Cohoes Falls: Issues of (Mis)Identification,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 191–203.
Berlo, Janet Catherine, “The Szwedzicki Portfolios of American Indian Art, 1929–1952: Kiowa Indian Art, Pueblo Indian Painting, and Pueblo Indian Pottery,” American Indian Art Magazine, 34 (Spring 2009), 36–45. Heavily illustrated.
Brumbaugh, Lee P., “Through the Lens of History: The Native American Photograph Collection of the Nevada Historical Society,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Fall 2008), 219–54.
Cavanaugh, Jennifer Jones, “Hooray for What! A Glimpse into the Golden Age of Sexual Harassment,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Fall 2008), 5–28.
Clapper, Michael, “Imagining the Ordinary: John Rogers’s Anticlassical Genre Sculptures as Purposely Popular Art,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Spring 2009), 1–40.
Cuba, Stan, “Women Printing Colorado, 1871–2001,” Colorado Heritage (Autumn 2008), 26–49. Heavily illustrated.
Hanson, Christopher, “Drawing Flak: George Biddle and the Army’s World War II Art Unit,” Archives of American Art Journal, 47 (Fall 2008), 50–65. Heavily illustrated.
Lynch, Michael, “Putting a Face to the Name: Another Look at the Thomas Lincoln Photo,” Lincoln Herald, 110 (Winter 2008), 253–68.
Madsen, Annelise, “Dressing the Part: Mark Twain’s White Suit, Copyright Reform, and the Camera,” Journal of American Culture, 32 (March 2009), 53–71.
Massey, Drew, “Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Feb. 2009), 67–84.
McCarthy, David, “Payback Was a Painting: Jack Levine’s Welcome Home,” Archives of American Art Journal, 47 (Fall 2008), 38–49. Heavily illustrated.
McCoy, Ron, “‘Spiders Are Mysterious’: The Spirit of the Spider in Lakota Art and Lore,” American Indian Art Magazine, 34 (Spring 2009), 60–71. Heavily illustrated.
McGinnis, Karin, “Minnesota Letterheads: The Evolution of Business Style,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2008–2009), 132–47.
Sandeen, Eric J., “Robert Adams and the ‘Persistent Beauty’ of Colorado Landscapes,” History of Photography (London), 33 (Feb. 2009), 55–70.
Schlueter, Jennifer, “‘A Theatrical Race’: American Identity and Popular Performance in the Writings of Constance M. Rourke,” Theatre Journal, 60 (Dec. 2008), 529–43.
Verplanck, Anne, “The Silhouette and Quaker Identity in Early National Philadelphia,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Spring 2009), 41–78.
Weeks, Stephen, “William Thompson Price, the Uses of Science, and the Rhetoric of Early Modern American Dramaturgy,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Fall 2008), 75–101.
Wilson, Melinda D., “Take a Giant Step into (African) American Theatre History: Broadway’s First ‘Universal’ Drama,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Fall 2008), 49–73.
Yeide, Nacy H., and Patricia A. Teter-Schneider, “S. Lane Faison Jr. and ‘Art under the Shadow of the Swastica,’” Archives of American Art Journal, 47 (Fall 2008), 24–37. Heavily illustrated.
Barrett, Ross, “Rendering Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Upheaval in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Visual Culture” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3323100.
Burgess, Rebekah E. M., “Collecting Agency: Reversing the Camera’s Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3323105.
Dietz, Angela Kathleen, “Spectacles of Labor: Visualizing a Nation at Work, 1850–1920” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324244.
Gibb, Andrew Joseph, “Staging Continuity: Theatre, Performance, and the Social Imaginary in Transitional California, 1836–1859” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3323692.
Gopinath, Gabrielle, “Ghost Detainees: Figural Presence in the Work of Bruce Nauman, 1969–1990” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317119.
Johnston, Christopher F., “Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318260.
Mullenneaux, Nan, “Walking Ladies: Mid-nineteenth-century American Actresses’ Work, Family, and Culture” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3319559.
Prece, Paul, “Writing Home: The Post Colonial Dialogue of Athol Fugard and August Wilson” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315274.
Richter, Annett Claudia, “Fiddles, Harmonicas, and Banjos: Thomas Hart Benton and His Role in Constructing Popular Notions of American Folk Music and Musicians” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3321928.
Weintraub, Maxim Leonid, “‘Suite Substitute’: The Nature of Representation in the Art of Bruce Nauman” (Bryn Mawr College, 2006). Order No. DA3319174.
Willis-Tropea, Liz, “Hollywood Glamour: Sex, Power, and Photography, 1925–1939” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3311045.
Cotsell, Michael, The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900–1930. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. xvi, 377 pp. $89.95, isbn 0-8204-7466-5.)
Fisher, Linda A., and Carrie Bowers, Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xxvi, 385 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3983-8.)
Grafe, Steven L., ed., Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xii, 323 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8061-4022-3. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4029-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Harrington, John P., ed., Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxii, 226 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3169-9.)
Neset, Arne, Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth Century Transatlantic Culture. (New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 296 pp. $67.95, isbn 1-4331-0297-8.)
Taylor, Kelly S., The Lady Actress: Recovering the Lost Legacy of a Victorian American Superstar. (Los Angeles: Wapshott, 2009. 245 pp. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-615-26250-5.)
Warner, John Harley, and James M. Edmonson, Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880–1930. (New York: Blast, 2009. 207 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-922233-34-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Wertheim, Arthur Frank, Vaudeville Wars: How the Keith-Albee and Orpheum Circuits Controlled the Big-Time and Its Performers. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xviii, 332 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-230-61136-8.)
Davis, John, and Sarah Burns, American Art to 1900: A Documentary History. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 1082 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-520-24526-6. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-520-25756-6.)
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