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Visual and Performing Arts

Archuleta, Elizabeth, “History Carved in Stone: Memorializing Po’Pay and Oñate, or Recasting Racialized Regimes of Representation?,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Summer 2007), 317–42.

De Bres, Karen, “Imagining Kansas: Place, Promotion, and Western Stereotypes in the Art of Henry Worrall (1825–1902),” Great Plains Quarterly, 27 (Summer 2007), 177–92.

Hallstoos, Brian, “Pageant and Passion: Willa Saunders Jones and Early Black Sacred Drama in Chicago,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Spring 2007), 77–97.

Havig, Alan R., “Neglected Playscriipts, Hidden Talent: The Vaudeville Playlet,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Winter 2007), 33–56.

Kennicott, Leigh, “Dislocations of Time and Space on the Early Twentieth-Century Broadway Stage,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 19 (Spring 2007), 99–118.

Roark, Carolyn D., “‘Live! In the Canyon’: Historical Pageantry as Community-Builder in the Paso del Norte,” Americana, 6 (Spring 2007), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

Steffensen, Ingrid, “Reconfiguring the Renaissance: American Mural Painting in Light of the Italian Renaissance,” Nineteenth Century, 27 (Spring 2007), 3–13.

 

Bell, Adrienne Baxter, “George Inness: Painting Philosophy” (Columbia University, 2005). Order No. DA3249172.

Curley, Eileen Moira, “Beyond the Pocket Doors: Amateur Theatricals in Nineteenth-Century New York City” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3243770.

Edelman, Aliza Rachel, “The Modern Woman and Abstract Expressionism: Ethel Schwabacher, Elaine de Kooning, and Grace Hartigan in the 1950s” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3240209.

Egan, Shannon, “An American Art: Edward S. Curtis and ‘The North American Indian,’ 1907–1930” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3240701.

Kresser, Katie Mullis, “Art as History/History as Art: John La Farge and the Problem of Representation, 1859–1910” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3245155.

Kusserow, Karl Erich, “Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243651.

Noonan, Julie A., “The Sound of Musicals’ Women: Tessitura and the Construction of Gender in the American Musical” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3243477.

Pederson, Amy Marie, “Wie er in die Welt kam: Supermen and Modernism in Mid-Century America” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3247466.

Schoone-Jongen, Terence Guy, “Tulip Time, U.S.A.: Staging Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity in Dutch-American Community Festivals” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3246124.

Shandell, Jonathan, “The American Negro Theatre: Staging Inter-racialism in Harlem, 1940–1949” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3242673.

Wolfskill, Phoebe Elizabeth, “Reexamining 1930s American Art: The ‘Realisms’ of Archibald Motley Jr. and Reginald Marsh” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3243025.

Wright, John William, “Performing Citizenship: Tensions in the Creation of the Citizen Image on Stage and Screen” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2006). Order No. DA3245008.

 

Apel, Dora, and Shawn Michelle Smith, Lynching Photographs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 101 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-520-25152-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-520-25332-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Dewey, Donald, The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. x, 251 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8147-1985-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Eldredge, Charles C., John Steuart Curry’s Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern History. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xviii, 86 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3087-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Lee, Anthony W., and Elizabeth Young, On Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 119 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-520-25151-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-520-25331-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Williams, Lynn Barstis, Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920s–1940s. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xii, 211 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1560-3.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Lanmon, Dwight P., Lorraine Welling Lanmon, and Dominique Coulet du Gard, Josephine Foard and the Glazed Pottery of Laguna Pueblo. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xxii, 246 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4307-9.)

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