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Visual and Performing Arts

Biel, Steven, “Parson Weems Fights Fascists: G. W. and the Cherry Tree in 1939,” Common-Place, 6 (July 2006) http://www.common-place.org.

Bjelajac, David, “Thomas Cole’s Oxbow and the American Zion Divided,” American Art, 20 (Spring 2006), 60–83. Heavily illustrated.

Braddock, Alan C., “Shooting the Beholder: Charles Schreyvogel and the Spectacle of Gun Vision,” American Art, 20 (Spring 2006), 36–59. Heavily illustrated.

Davis, Daniel, “‘Appreciating a Pretty Shoulder’: The Risqué Photographs of Charles Ellis Johnson,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Spring 2006), 131–46.

Davis, John, “Real Estate and Artistic Identity in Turn-of-the-Century New York,” American Art, 20 (Summer 2006), 56–75. Heavily illustrated.

Fryd, Vivien Green, “The ‘Ghosting’ of Incest and Female Relations in Harriet Hosmer’s Beatrice Cenci,” Art Bulletin, 88 (June 2006), 292–309.

Hassrick, Peter H., “William Ranney: A Painter’s Requiem to the Mountain Man,” Montana, 56 (Summer 2006), 42–53.

Lamb, Blaine P., “Marketing the Misson Revival: Commercial Art and the Image of Hispanic California,” Boletín, 22 (no. 2, 2005), 94–112.

Latimer, Tirza True, “The Art of Starting Over: San Franscisco Artists and the Great Quake of 1906,” American Art, 20 (Spring 2006), 96–107. Heavily illustrated.

Marcus, Alan, “Looking Up: The Child in the City,” History of Photography (London), 30 (Summer 2006), 119–33.

Mendes, Nancy, “Edwin Austin Abbey, a Capital Artist,” Pennsylvania Heritage, 32 (Summer 2006), 6–15.

Reinhardt, Leslie, “Serious Daughters: Dolls, Dress, and Female Virtue in the Eighteenth Century,” American Art, 20 (Summer 2006), 32–55. Heavily illustrated.

Taylor, Thomas Templeton, “Tennessee v. Scopes versus Inherit the Wind: The Trial in the Play and the Film,” Fídes et Hístoría, 37–38 (Summer–Fall 2005, Winter–Spring 2006), 165–75.

White, Mark Andrew, “Alexandre Hogue’s Passion: Ecology and Agribusiness in The Crucified Land,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Spring 2006), 67–83.

Wier, Georgia, “From Nordenskiold to Nusbaum: Photography, Archaeology, and Tourism in the Early Years of Mesa Verde National Park,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2006), 19–33. Heavily illustrated.

 

Brower, Matthew Francis, “Animal Traces: Early North American Wildlife Photography” (University of Rochester, 2005). Order No. DA3189107.

Carbone, Teresa A., “Historic American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum of Art: A Critical Collection History with Selected Entries” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3189025.

Chieffo-Reidway, Toby Maria, “Nathaniel Jocelyn: In the Service of Art and Abolition” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3187785.

Davis, Melody D., “Doubling the Vision. Women and Narrative Stereography: The United States, 1870–1910” (City University of New York, 2004). Order No. DA3189026.

Higginbotham, Carmenita D., “Saturday Night at the Savoy: Blackness and the Urban Spectacle in the Art of Reginald Marsh” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3186645.

Murphy, Kevin Michael, “Economics of Style: The Business Practices of American Artists and the Structure of the Market, 1850–1910” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3190438.

Ontiveros, Mario Joseph, II, “Reconfiguring Activism: Inquiries into Obligation, Responsibility, and Social Relations in Post 1960s Art Practices in the United States” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3190491.

 

Carrier, David, Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xiv, 313 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 0-8223-3682-0. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8223-3694-4.)

Román, David, Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 0-8223-3675-8. Paper, $23.95, isbn 0-8223-3663-4.)

Zurier, Rebecca, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. x, 407 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-520-22018-8.) Heavily illustrated.

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