Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Kennedy, Sharon L., “Nebraska Women Artists, 1880–1950,” Nebraska History, 88 (Fall 2007), 62–95. Heavily illustrated.
Sutherland, Daniel E., “James McNeill Whistler in Chile: Portrait of the Artist as Arms Dealer,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (March 2008), 61–73.
Bringardner, Charles Albert, “Popular Entertainment and Constructions of Southern Identity: How Burlesques, Medicine Shows, and Musical Theatre Made Meaning and Money in the South, 1854–1980” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3271388.
Canedo, Richard G., “Entertaining America: Vaudeville and the Middle Ground of American Culture, 1865–1920” (Brown University, 2007). Order No. DA3271955.
Cawthra, Benjamin Scott, “Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography, Race, and the Image of Jazz, 1936–1965” (Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3268014.
Charbonneau, Stephen Michael, “Screen Angst: Young Auto-Ethnographies and Alterity in American Documentary” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3272271.
Curley, John J., “The Art That Came in from the Cold: Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter, 1950–1968” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267235.
Dietrick, Jon Michael, “Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents: Money in Modern American Drama” (University of Connecticut, 2007).
Fleming, Elizabeth Anne, “Theorization and Commodification: The Production and Promotion of American Decorative Arts in the 1980s” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267245.
Frazier, James A., “Saying It Loud: The Cultural and Socio-Political Activism of Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3268145.
Greenhill, Jennifer A., “The Plague of Jocularity: Contesting Humor in American Art and Culture, 1863–1893” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267251.
Ikegami, Hiroko, “Dislocations: Robert Rauschenberg and the Americanization of Modern Art, circa 1964” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267272.
Johnson, Brandon Lavell, “Spirits on the Stage: Public Mediums, Spiritualist Theater, and American Culture, 1848–1893” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3273027.
Lundskaer-Nielsen, Miranda, “Life Ain’t a Cabaret: Theatre Directors and the Rise of Musical Drama in the 1980s and 1990s” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3271881.
MacGibbon, Heather, “The Abortion Narrative in American Film: 1900–2000” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3269798.
Mahala, Macelle R., “Better Recognize: African American Theatre as a Politics of Cultural Practice” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3263120.
McCormick, Seth, “Jasper Johns, 1954–1958: Persecution and the Art of Painting” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3266638.
Miklos, Michael Joseph, “Undermining Common Sense: Racial Legislation, Comedy, and the Family” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3265655.
Musher, Sharon Ann, “A New Deal for Art” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3266652.
Sailor, Rachel M., “Meaningful Places: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Local Landscapes of the American West” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3265983.
Samuel, Anne E., “Vision Conceptualized in the American Renaissance Murals of Edwin Howland Blashfield” (University of Delaware, 2007). Order No. DA3277812.
Schneider, Erika, “Starving for Recognition: The Representation of Struggling Artists in America, 1810–1865” (Temple University, 2007). Order No. DA3268204.
Simonson, Mary Elizabeth, “Music, Dance, and Female Creativity in Early Twentieth-Century American Performance” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3280005.
Smith, Tyler August, “Comedy on the Borders: Negotiations of Class through Parody on the Nineteenth-Century New York Stage” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3270031.
Tomaszewsa, Lara Halina, “Borderlines of Poetry and Art: Vancouver, American Modernism, and the Formation of the West Coast Avant-Garde, 1961–1969” (University of British Columbia, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR31943.
Uroskie, Andrew Vincent, “Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Warhol, Expanded Cinema, and the Emergence of the Moving Image in American Art, 1963–1965” (University of California, Berkeley, 2005). Order No. DA3275678.
Vorano, Norman David, “Inuit Art in the Qallunaat World: Modernism, Museums, and the Popular Imaginary, 1949–1962” (University of Rochester, 2007). Order No. DA3263999.
Woodard, Laurie Avant, “Performing Artists of the Harlem Renaissance: Resistance, Identity, and Meaning in the Life and Work of Fredi Washington from 1920 to 1950” (Yale University, 2007). Order No. DA3267384.
Zarro, Jennifer S., “Views of Philadelphia and the Culture of Geography, 1780–1800: Maps, Magazine Engravings, and William Birch” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2007). Order No. DA3277332.
Barker, Scott Grant, and Jane Myers, Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s. (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2008. 205 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-88362-103-7.)
Bochner, Jay, An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz’s New York Secession. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2005. xviii, 371 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-262-02580-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-262-52488-9.)
Boime, Albert, Art in the Age of Civil Struggle, 1848–1871. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xx, 884 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-226-06328-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Garrison, Webb, Brady’s Civil War: A Collection of Memorable Civil War Images Photographed by Mathew Brady and His Assistants. (New York: Lyons, 2008. 256 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-1-59921-315-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Haltman, Kenneth, Looking Close and Seeing Far: Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the Art of the Long Expedition, 1818–1823. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. xxvi, 278 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-271-02982-5.)
Hapke, Laura, Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the wpa Art of the 1930s. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. xii, 301 pp. $69.99, isbn 978-1-84718-415-3.)
Sagala, Sandra K., Buffalo Bill on Stage. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xii, 307 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4427-4.)
Schechter, Joel, Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. viii, 295 pp. $37.50, isbn 978-1-59213-872-2.)
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