Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Dudley, Tara, “Seeking the Ideal African-American Interior: The Walker Residences and Salon in New York,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 14 (Fall–Winter 2006–2007), 80–112.
Egan, Shannon, “‘Yet in a Primitive Condition’: Edward S. Curtis’s North American Indian,” American Art, 20 (Fall 2006), 58–83.
Feinberg, Larry J., “A Brief History of the Old Masters in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies, 32 (no. 2, 2006), 6–23. Heavily illustrated.
Garvin, Donna-Belle, ed., “Consuming Views: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850–1900,” Historical New Hampshire, 60 (Spring–Summer 2006), 1–118. Special issue.
Gordon, Linda, “Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist,” Journal of American History, 93 (Dec. 2006), 698–727.
Gresh, Kristen, “The European Roots of The Family of Man,” History of Photography (London), 29 (Winter 2005), 331–43. Heavily illustrated.
Hammond, Anne, “Ansel Adams at Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943–1944,” History of Photography (London), 30 (Autumn 2006), 245–57. Heavily illustrated.
Hoffman, Katherine, “Sowing the Seeds/Setting the Stage: Steichen, Stieglitz, and The Family of Man,” History of Photography (London), 29 (Winter 2005), 320–30. Heavily illustrated.
Maxwell, Justin, “Reciprocal Relationships: August Wilson and the Playwrights’ Center,” Minnesota History, 60 (Winter 2006–2007), 132–42.
Meyer, Carter Jones, “The Battle between ‘Art’ and ‘Progress’: Edgar L. Hewett and the Politics of Region in the Early-Twentieth-Century Southwest,” Montana, 56 (Autumn 2006), 47–59.
Morris, John G., “The Family of Man as American Foreign Policy,” History of Photography (London), 29 (Winter 2005), 360–71. Heavily illustrated.
Mullenix, Elizabeth Reitz, “Yankee Doodle Dixie: Performing Nationhood on the Eve of War,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 18 (Fall 2006), 33–54.
Sandeen, Eric J., “The International Reception of The Family of Man,” History of Photography (London), 29 (Winter 2005), 344–55. Heavily illustrated.
Sloat, Benjamin, “Shades of Brown and Yellow: Asian Visual Representation in the American Construct,” Exposure, 39 (Fall 2006), 33–42.
Anderson, Tonnia L., “Photographing the Race: The Cultural Politics of Race, Memory, and Meaning in the Photography of Richard S. Roberts, 1920–1936” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214164.
Boettcher, Graham Corray, “Domestic Violence: The Politics of Family and Nation in Antebellum American Art” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214177.
Brunson, James Edward, III, “The Moor’s Last Sigh: Boabdil and the Black Image in American Orientalism, 1816–1893” (University of Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3206318.
Cordova, Cary, “The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Identity in San Francisco” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3215349.
Fort, Megan Holoway, “Archibald and Alexander Robertson and Their Schools, the Columbian Academy of Painting, and the Academy of Painting and Drawing, New York, 1791–1835” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3213178.
Gaffney, Peter D., “Demiurgic Machines: The Mechanics of New York Dada. A Study of the Machine Art of Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Other Members of New York Dada during the Period, 1912–1922” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3211072.
Garber, Michael G., “Reflexive Songs in the American Musical, 1898 to 1947” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3213167.
Gordon, Sarah Anne, “Sanctioning the Nude: Production and Reception of Eadweard Muybridge’s ‘Animal Locomotion,’ 1887” (Northwestern University, 2006). Order No. DA3213061.
Helfgott, Isadora Anderson, “Art and the Struggle for the American Soul: The Pursuit of a Popular Audience for Art in America from the Depression to World War II” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3205908.
Korasick, John E., “Collecting Africa: African Material Culture and the American Image of Africa, 1885–1930” (Saint Louis University, 2005). Order No. DA3211617.
Pearson-Little Thunder, Julie, “Native Emergence Theater, 1975–1985, and the Enactment of Indian Theatrical Space by Red Earth Performing Arts Company, Daystar Dance Company, and American Indian Theater Company of Oklahoma” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214791.
Perchuk, Andrew J., “From Otis to Ferus: Robert Irwin, Ed Ruscha, and Peter Voulkos in Los Angeles, 1954–1975” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214270.
Reece-Hughes, Shirley, “David Bates: Southern Culture, Places, and Memories through the Eyes of an Expressionist” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214826.
Sartwell, Elissa, “The Other Side of the Tracks: Railroads, Race, and the Performance of Unity in Nineteenth-Century American Entertainment” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2006). Order No. DA3208197.
Shim, Bo-Seon, “Race and Culture in Nonprofits: The Transformation of New York Asian American Arts Organizations, 1971–2004” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3213590.
Sinnett, Gretchen R., “Envisioning Female Adolescence: Rites of Passage in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Painting” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3211146.
Smith, Peter Dunbaugh, “Ashley Street Blues: Racial Uplift and the Commodification of Vernacular Performance in Lavilla, Florida, 1896–1916” (Florida State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216542.
Thompson, Angela M., “Ethics of Seeing and Politics of Place: fsa Photography and Literature of the American South” (University of Oregon, 2006). Order No. DA3211227.
Trask, Jeffrey Lee, “‘American things’: The Cultural Value of Decorative Arts in the Modern Museum, 1905–1931” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3203767.
Wilk, Rona M., “‘Vox populi’: Popularization and Americanization of Opera in America, 1931–1966” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3205694.
Bogart, Michele H., The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii, 368 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-226-06305-8.)
Gadsden, Nonie, Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery. (Boston: mfa, 2006. 103 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-87846-716-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Garvin, Donna-Belle, ed., Consuming Views: Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850–1900. (Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2006. 119 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-58465-613-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Griffin-Pierce, Trudy, Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche’s Puberty Ceremony Paintings. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xx, 185 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1544-3. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-8173-5367-4.)
Krass, Peter, Portrait of War: The U.S. Army’s First Combat Artists and the Doughboys’ Experience in WWI. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2007. x, 342 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-471-67023-0.)
Marra, Kim, Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. xxiv, 352 pp. $47.95, isbn 978-0-87745-993-4.)
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