Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Baker, James Graham, “Verner White: Rediscovering a Neglected Texas Artist,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (April 2010), 423–36. Heavily illustrated.
Buse, Peter, “Polaroid, Aperture, and Ansel Adams: Rethinking the Industry-Aesthetics Divide,” History of Photography (London), 33 (Nov. 2009), 354–69. Heavily illustrated.
Chen, Constance J. S., “Merchants of Asianness: Japanese Art Dealers in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 19–46.
Curley, John J., “Running on Empty: Willem de Kooning in the Late 1950s,” Modernism/Modernity, 17 (Jan. 2010), 61–86.
Cutler, Jody B., “Art Revolution: Politics and Pop in the Robert Colescott Painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware,” Americana, 8 (Fall 2009), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.
Fauser, Annegret, “‘Dixie Carmen’: War, Race, and Identity in Oscar Hammerstein’s Carmen Jones (1943),” Journal of the Society for American Music, 4 (May 2010), 127–74.
Flamiano, Dolores, “Japanese American Internment in Popular Magazines: Race, Citizenship, and Gender in World War II Photojournalism,” Journalism History, 36 (Spring 2010), 23–35.
Grafe, Steven L., “Following the Old North Trail to Berlin: Walter McClintock and the Grand Opera Poia,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 60 (Spring 2010), 45–62.
Harris, Moira F., “Bertha Corbett Melcher, Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies,” Minnesota History, 62 (Spring 2010), 29–39. Heavily illustrated.
Kibler, M. Alison, “‘Freedom of the Theater’ and ‘Practical Censorship’: Two Theater Riots in the Early Twentieth Century,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 15–19.
Porter, Charlotte M., “Wetlands and Wildlife: Martin Johnson Heade in Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Winter 2010), 326–47.
Reed, Brian M., “Hand in Hand: Jasper Johns and Hart Crane,” Modernism/Modernity, 17 (Jan. 2010), 21–45.
Rice, Mark, “His Name Was Don Francisco Muro: Reconstructing an Image of American Imperialism,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 49–76.
Schad, Jasper G., “‘A City of Picture Buyers’: Art, Identity, and Aspiration in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1891–1914,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 19–50.
Arnall, January Parkos, “‘Adventures into Camera-Land’: Women, Image-Making, and the Social Environment of Chicago Camera Clubs at the Turn-of-the-Century” (Claremont Graduate University, 2009). Order No. DA3361801.
Axtell, Katherine Leigh, “Maiden Voyage: The Genesis and Reception of Show Boat, 1926–1932” (University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, 2009). Order No. DA3361069.
Beggs, Anne Elizabeth, “Brecht and the Culture Industry: Political Comedy on Broadway and the West End, 1960–1965” (Cornell University, 2009). Order No. DA3363464.
Blaney, Darren Patrick, “Staging the Social and Cruising the Crisis: A Genealogy of Utopian Aspiration in U.S. Queer Theater from the 1960s to the Present” (University of California, Davis, 2009). DA 0821786
Carbonell-Coll, Gisela M., “A Spaniard in New York: Salvador Dalí and the Ruins of Modernity, 1940–1948” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2009). Order No. DA3362743.
Cole, Carrie Jane, “‘She Will Not Submit to Be Ignored’: Kate Douglas Wiggin and Performing American Femininity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359739.
DeBaca, Michael Alvar, “Memory Work: Anne Truitt and Sculpture in the 1960s” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365238.
Dubois, Michelle, “Charles Seliger: Representing ‘The Structure of Becoming’” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3357640.
Fay, Brendan Alan, “American Photography and Abstraction, 1940–1960: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365258.
Ikemoto, Wendy Nalani Emiko, “The Space Between: Paired Paintings in Antebellum America” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365290.
Katz, Roberta Gray, “The Literary Paintings of Thomas Cole: Image and Text” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364611.
Lamunière, Michelle, “Sentiment and Science: Francis Greenwood Peabody and Social Reform Photography in Harvard’s Social Museum” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3357664.
Marley, Anna O’Day, “Rooms with a View: Landscape Representation in the Early National and Late Colonial Domestic Interior” (University of Delaware, 2009). Order No. DA3360244.
McClure, Daniel N., “A Woman of Action: Elma Lewis, the Arts, and the Politics of Culture in Boston, 1950–1986” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009). Order No. DA3359905.
McGuire, Kathleen Diane, “The Transatlantic Paddy: The Making of a Transnational Irish Identity in Nineteenth-Century America” (University of California, Riverside, 2009). Order No. DA3359906.
Miller, Sarah M., “Inventing ‘Documentary’ in American Photography, 1930–1945” (University of Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3362058.
Moore, Charlotte Emans, “Art as Text, War as Context: The Art Gallery of the Metropolitan Fair, New York City’s Artistic Community, and the Civil War” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3363625.
Niedzielski-Eichner, Nora, “Integrating Modernism: The Migration of Paintings of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364331.
Pérez Gómez, Elba Iris, “Freedom and Revolution in Theater in Puerto Rico: Constructions of Nation and Identity in Dramatic Discourse, 1966–1975” (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, 2009). Order No. DA3365014.
Rapp, Karen M., “‘Not the Romantic West’: Site-Specific Art, Globalization, and Contemporary Landscapes” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364349.
Spicer, Frank G., III, “‘Just What Was It That Made U.S. Art So Different, So Appealing?’: Case Studies of the Critical Reception of American Avant-Garde Painting in London, 1950–1964” (Case Western Reserve University, 2009). Order No. DA3362202.
Ureña, Leslie Jennifer, “Lewis Hine at Ellis Island: The Photography of Immigration and Race, 1904–1926” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355743.
Vazquez, Edward Anthony, “Aspects: The Art of Fred Sandback” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3364475.
Berger, Maurice, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. xvi, 207 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-300-12131-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Buick, Kirsten Pai, Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4247-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4266-3.)
Duganne, Erina, The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2010. xii, 236 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-802-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Wollman, Elizabeth L., The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical from Hair to Hedwig. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. viii, 271 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-472-11576-1. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-472-03402-4.)
Remsberg, Rich, Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xxxii, 220 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03524-1. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-252-07709-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Willis, Deborah, Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present. (New York: Norton, 2009. xxxiv, 244 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-393-06696-8.) Heavily illustrated.
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