Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Dunaway, Finis, “Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet,” Environmental History, 14 (Jan. 2009), 9–31.
Gunkel, Ann Hetzel, “Ethnic Aesthetics: Considering Polish-American Art,” Polish American Studies, 66 (Spring 2009), 5–24.
Harvey, Phillip, “The View from Now: Trends in the Idiom of Young African American Artists,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 2, 2008), 2–14.
Jacobson, Claes H., “John Anderson: A Swedish Immigrant and Pioneer Photographer among the Rosebud Sioux Indians,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 60 (April 2009), 59–71.
Lessing, Lauren, and Mary Schafer, “Unveiling Raphaelle Peale’s Venus Rising from the Sea—a Deception,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Summer/Autumn 2009), 229–59.
Scott, Amy, “Collections: Art and Adventure in Nineteenth-Century California,” California History, 86 (no. 4, 2009), 14–23. Heavily illustrated.
Thompson, Jerry, “Bean Farmers and Thunder Mugs: Russell Lee’s 1940 Farm Security Administration Photographs and Letters of Pie Town and Catron County,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Fall 2009), 463–520. Heavily illustrated.
Bernabe, Jan Christian, “Improbable Visions: Filipino Bodies, U.S. Empire, and the Visual Archives” (University of Michigan, 2008). Order No. DA3343008.
Caro, Julie Levin, “Rooted in the Community: Black Middle Class Identity Performance in the Early Works of Allan Rohan Crite, 1935–1948” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3341562.
Cruscoe, Doris K., “Mothers, Children, Stereotypes, and Visual Culture: The African-American Experience Interpreted thorugh Art, 1940 to 2000” (Howard University, 2008). Order No. DA3335307.
Dolan, Julia K., “‘I Will Take You into the Heart of Modern Industry’: Lewis Hine’s Photographic Interpretation of the Machine Age” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3345717.
Kroiz, Lauren, “New Races, New Media: The Struggle for a Modern American Art, 1890–1925” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008).
Leiter, Cary, “The Importance of the Yiddish Theatre in the Evolution of the Modern American Theatre” (Wayne State University, 2008). Order No. DA3338745.
Lubin, Cheryl Beth, “Courting the Stage: Law, Drama, and the Performance of Law” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335975.
Molloseau, Erika Damita’jo, “Exhibiting Racism: The Cultural Politics of Lynching Photography Re-presentations” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3335799.
Portnoy, Edward A., “The Creation of a Jewish Cartoon Space in the New York and Warsaw Yiddish Press, 1884–1939” (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2008). Order No. DA3338438.
Post, Erin, “Carceral Theaters: Genet, Beckett, and Weiss between Dramatic and Postdramatic Theater” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3340974.
Proudfit, Scott, “Authority, Quotation, and Collective Composition in 20th and 21st Century U.S. Theatre and Drama” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3331149.
Thompson, Katrina Dyonne, “Choreographing Race: An Analysis of Black Performance and White Audience” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3337607.
Thompson, M.J., “Impure Movement (Mundane Body Techniques in 20th Century American Choreography)” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3342379.
Toth, Margaret A., “Peripheral Visions: Picturing Human Bodies in American Literature and Visual Culture, 1900–1919” (Tufts University, 2008). Order No. DA3341725.
Turpin, John Coy Bond, “The Life and Work of Dorothy Draper, Interior Designer: A Study of Class Values and Success” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3339540.
Zalman, Sandra R., “A Vernacular Vanguard: Surrealism and the Making of American Art History” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3341823.
Gonzalves, Theodore S., The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-1-59213-728-9. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-1-59213-729-9.)
Smith, Richard Cándida, The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. x, 252 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8122-4188-4.)
Kimbro, Enda E., and Julia G. Costello, with Tevvy Ball, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation. (Los Angeles: Getty, 2009. 273 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-89236-983-6.) Heavily illustrated.
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