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Visual and Performing Arts

Belnap, Jeffrey, “Diego Rivera’s Greater America: Pan-American Patronage, Indigenism, and H.P.,” Cultural Critique (no. 63, Spring 2006), 61–98.

Colten, Craig, “Henry Howe’s Images of an Emerging Main Street,” Material Culture, 38 (Spring 2006), 36–53.

Lindner, Markus H., “Family, Politics, and Show Business: The Photographs of Sitting Bull,” North Dakota History, 72 (nos. 3–4 2005), 2–21. Heavily illustrated.

Martin, Mark, “An Eye of Silver: Andrew D. Lytle, Baton Rouge Photographer, 1858–1917,” Louisiana History, 47 (Summer 2006), 333–66.

O’Brien, Sheila Ruzycki, “‘There is no arguing with pictures’: Stretching the Canvas of Gender in the Art Portraits, Picture-language, and the Original Illustrations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (June 2006), 449–80.

Parrott, Lindsy Riepma, “The Ceramics of Louis Comfort Tiffany,” Nineteenth Century, 26 (Spring 2006), 3–11.

Savran, David, “The Search for America’s Soul: Theatre in the Jazz Age,” Theatre Journal, 58 (Oct. 2006), 459–76.

Street, Richard Steven, “Lange’s Antecedents: The Emergence of Social Documentary Photography of California’s Farmworkers,” Pacific Historical Review, 75 (Aug. 2006), 385–428.

Sturtevant, William C., “David and Dennis Cusick, Early Iroquois Realist Artists,” American Indian Art Magazine, 31 (Spring 2006), 44–55. Heavily illustrated.

Walters, Wendy S., “After the Death of the Last: Performance as History in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and The Blue Spots,” in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, 226–59. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxii, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3812-3. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3865-9.)

 

Caesar, Catherine, “Personae: The Feminist Conceptual Work of Eleanor Antin and Martha Rosler, 1968–1980” (Emory University, 2005). Order No. DA3201381.

Davis, Caitlin S., “Lee Miller: Photographer of War” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2005). Order No. DA3195671.

Guzmán, Kristen, “Art in the Heart of East L.A.: A History of Self Help Graphics and Art, Inc., 1972–2004” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3202786.

Jortner, Maura L., “Playing ‘America’ on Nineteenth-Century Stages; or, Jonathan in England and Jonathan at Home” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3206793.

Lingan, Edmund B., “The Theatre of the New Religious Movements of Europe and America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3205453.

Norland, Betsey, “Shall We Dance? The Choreography of Cultural Change: 1900–1945” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2005). Order No. DA3195730.

Pytlinski, Deanne, “Utopian Visions: Women in Early Video Art” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3205455.

Reed, Peter patrick, “Arrant Beggars: Staging the Atlantic Lumpenproletariat, 1777 to 1852” (Florida State University, 2005). Order No. DA3198250.

Seppi, Lisa Ann, “Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005). Order No. DA3202169.

Snow, Rachel, “Incidental Tourists: Vernacular Photo-Travel Books, 1900–1940” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3205457.

Wentrack, Kathleen, “The Female Body in Conflict: U.S. and European Feminist Performance Art, 1963–1979—Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export, and Ulrike Rosenbach.” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3205456.

 

Anthes, Bill, Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xxxii, 235 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3850-5. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3866-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Bantel, Linda, and Peter H. Hassrick, Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney with a Catalogue of His Works. (Cody: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2006. xxxviii, 225 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-931618-61-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Dabbert, James R., ed., The Indiana Dunes Revealed: The Art of Frank V. Dudley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xiv, 237 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03139-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-07378-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Hartzman, Marc, American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. (New York: Penguin, 2006. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 1-58542-530-3.)

Kanfer, Stefan, Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America. (New York: Knopf, 2006. xxiv, 324 pp. $26.95, isbn 1-4000-4288-7.)

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