Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Black, Cheryl, “After the Emperor: Interracial Collaborations between Provincetown Alumni and Black Theatre Artists, c. 1924–1946,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Winter 2008), 5–26.
Civetta, Peter, “(Well, At Least) Lazarus Laughed: O’Neill, Religious Drama, and Stageability,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Winter 2008), 27–52.
Dando, Christina E., “Constructing a Home on the Range: Homemaking in Early-Twentieth-Century Plains Photograph Albums,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Spring 2008), 105–33. Heavily illustrated.
Evans, Curtis J., “The Religious and Racial Meanings of The Green Pastures,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Winter 2008), 59–93.
Geduld, Victoria Phillips, “Performing Communism in the American Dance: Culture, Politics, and the New Dance Group,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 39–65.
Grieve, Victoria M., “‘Work That Satisfies the Creative Instinct’: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Arts and Crafts,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 159–82.
Monteith, Sharon, “Sally Hemings in Visual Culture: A Radical Act of the Imagination?,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 29 (June 2008), 233–46.
Nochlin, Linda, “A Life of Learning,” American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper (no. 64 2007), 1–20.
Ott, John, “How New York Stole the Luxury Art Market: Blockbuster Auctions and Bourgeois Identity in Gilded Age America,” Winterthur Portfolio, 42 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 133–58.
Spratt, Meg, “When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 85–105. Heavily illustrated.
Davis, Carol Bunch, “Troubling the Boundaries: ‘Blacknesses,’ Performance, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278340.
Fleming, Tuliza, “Thomas Satterwhite Noble (1835–1907): ‘Reconstructed Rebel’” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283401.
Gevinson, Alan, “The Origins of Vaudeville: Aesthetic Power, Disquietude, and Cosmopolitanism in the Quest for an American Music Hall” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3288462.
Glahn, Philip, “Estrangement and Politicization: Bertolt Brecht and American Art, 1967–1979” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288948.
Jensen, Kirsten, “The American Salon: The Art Gallery at the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1873–1890” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283151.
Lamm, Kimberly Kay, “Composing and Contesting the Space of Visibility: Literary and Visual Portraiture in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289768.
McDaniel, L. Bailey, “Nurturing Fallacies: Constructing the Maternal in Twentieth-Century American Drama” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3290759.
Older, Caroline Doswell, “American Artists’ Frames: Paintings, Environments, and Viewers, 1860–1920” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3285840.
Price, Justine Dana, “Abstraction, Expression, Kitsch: American Painting in a Critical Context, 1936–1951” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3283459.
Roark, Kathleena Lucille, “Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787–1827” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290361.
Romaine, James, “Constructing a Beloved Community: The Methodological Development of Time Rollins and k.o.s.” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283181.
Scarborough, K. Neil, “Modern Primitive Body Art: The Cutting Edge of Queer Performance” (Bryn Mawr College, 2005). Order No. DA3282539.
Schlueter, Jennifer, “Our Lively Arts: American Culture as Theatrical Culture, 1922–1931” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286759.
Schmick, Robert Paul, “A Wilderness for All: The Transmuting and Transmitting of Wilderness Imagery by Print Media and Material Culture for Antebellum America” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3278633.
Schwartz, Stephanie, “The Crime of Cuba: Urbanism, Photography, and the Geopolitics of Americanization” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285161.
Thomas, Margaret Frances, “Through the Lens of Experience: American Women Newspaper Photographers” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285970.
Wagelie, Jennifer, “Maori Art in America: The Display and Collection History of Maori Art in the United States, 1802–2006” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283178.
Wallis, Brian, “Conflicting Images: Postmodernism and the Demystification of Art in American Culture, 1984–2001” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286496.
Yannacci, Christin Essin, “Landscapes of American Modernity: A Cultural History of Theatrical Design, 1912–1951” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3285871.
Chapman, Janet, and Karen Barrie, Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 370 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4424-3.)
DeLue, Rachael Ziady, George Innes and the Science of Landscape. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xvi, 317 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-226-14230-2.) Heavily illustrated.
Feldges, Benedikt, American Icons: The Genesis of a National Visual Language. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 288 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95635-2.)
Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxvi, 207 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4846-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4847-4.)
Gould, Neil, Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. xviii, 610 pp. $44.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2871-3.)
Jiménez-Blanco, María Dolores, and Cindy Mack, Buscadores de belleza: Historias de los grandes coleccionistas de arte (Seekers of beauty: Stories of the great art collectors). (Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 2007. 414 pp. isbn 987-84-344-5346-3.) In Spanish.
Johnson, Benjamin Heber, with Jeffrey Gusky, Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii, 210 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-300-13928-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Spirn, Anne Whiston, Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xvi, 359 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-226-76984-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Cole, Jean Lee, and Charles Mitchell, eds., Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xxxiv, 389 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4291-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4292-8.)
Weston, Harold, Freedom in the Wilds: An Artist in the Adirondacks, ed. Rebecca Foster. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xxiv, 276 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0899-8.) Originally published in 1971.
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