Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Barker, Clyde F., “Thomas Eakins and His Medical Clinics,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 1–47. Heavily illustrated.
Bryan, Mark Evans, “‘Crusade of Conquest’: Orientalist Surrogations in Manifest-Destinarian Theatre,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 21 (Winter 2009), 21–48.
Buhle, Paul, “Wisconsin’s Comic Art: From Underground to the Forefront,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Summer 2009), 42–53. Heavily illustrated.
Cantú, Norma E., “The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 97–115. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
Ching, Barbara, “‘This World of Ours’: The Bily Clocks and Cosmopolitan Regionalism, 1913–1948,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Spring 2009), 111–36.
Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe, “Burlesquing ‘Otherness’ in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Image of the Indian in John Brougham’s Met-a-mora; or, The Last of the Pollywogs (1847) and Po-Ca-Hon-Tas; or, The Gentle Savage (1855),” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 101–23.
Elam, Harry J., Jr., and Michele Elam, “Blood Debt: Reparations in Langston Hughes’s Mulatto,” Theatre Journal, 61 (March 2009), 85–103.
Frost, Richard H., “Photography and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1870–1930,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Spring 2009), 187–232. Heavily illustrated.
Huerta, Elisa Diana, “Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca,” in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, 3–18. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.)
Kanazawa, Hiroaki, “Shiryo toshiteno gasshukoku no katun: Amerika taigai kankeishi no zuzo bunseki” (U.S. political cartoons as primary historical sources: An attempt at iconographical analyses of the history of American foreign relations), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 126–35. In Japanese.
Kikukawa, Masako, “Kuniyoshi Yasuo no kimyona jigazo o megutte” (Inventing and performing the strange self-image of the Japanese American painter in Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s self portraits), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 175–95. In Japanese.
Kogan, Lee, “Clementine Hunter: Self-Taught Louisiana Artist,” in Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Judith F. Gentry and Janet Allured, 175–94. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. xvi, 354 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2946-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8203-2947-5.) Heavily illustrated.
Longobardi, Ruth Sara, “Re-producing Klinghoffer: Opera and Arab Identity before and after 9/11,” Journal of the Society for American Music, 3 (Aug. 2009), 273–310.
Nájera-Ramírez, Olga, Norma E. Cantú, and Brenda M. Romero, eds., Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xxiv, 445 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-252-03409-1. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07609-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Rychtarik, John E., “Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer, Illustrator and Portrait Artist,” South Dakota History, 39 (Summer 2009), 166–82.
Sailor, Rachel, “Performing the Pioneer: The Kolbs, the Grand Canyon, and Photographic Self-Representation,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Spring 2009), 233–61.
Smalec, Theresa K., “Scenes of Self-Recruitment: Ron Vawter’s Entry into the Performance Group,” Theatre Journal, 61 (March 2009), 23–41.
Street, Richard Steven, “Delano Diary: The Visual Adventure and Social Documentary Work of Jon Lewis, Photographer of the Delano, California, Grape Strike, 1966–1970,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2009), 191–235. Heavily illustrated.
Trachtenberg, Alan, “Minnesota in the Camera’s Eye, 1935–43,” Minnesota History, 61 (Spring 2009), 174–95. Heavily illustrated.
Belasco, Daniel, “Between the Waves: Feminist Positions in American Art, 1949–1962” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3329856.
Dragon, Donna A., “Toward Embodied Education, 1850s–2007: Historical, Cultural, Theoretical, and Methodological Perspectives Impacting Somatic Education in United States Higher Education Dance” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3326321.
Grudin, Anthony Equord, “Television Dreams: Andy Warhol and the History of Postwar Advertising” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3334310.
Hannah, Dorita, “Event-Space: Theater Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330713.
Hatch, Kevin, “Looking for Bruce Conner, 1957–1967” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3323183.
Heyrman, Joy Peterson, “‘Signature Drawings’: Social Networks and Collecting Practices in Antebellum Albums” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3324790.
Kjaer, Lise, “Awakening the Spiritual: James Turrell and Quaker Practice” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330386.
Lippert, Ellen, “George Ohr in His Nineteenth-Century Context: The Mad Potter Reconsidered” (Case Western Reserve University, 2008). Order No. DA3326248.
Lo, Yuk-Kwong Edmund, “Photo Illustration in U.S. Newsmagazines during the Past Three Decades” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3327144.
Love, Lauren Eileen, “‘I Hear America Kvelling’: Staging a Jewish American Future in the Twentieth Century” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3316141.
Oshima, Tetsuya, “The Figure Reemerging: Jackson Pollock’s Cut-Outs, 1948–1956” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3330387.
Pascoe-Chavez, Diana F., “Pragmatism and the Frontier Narrative in It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art” (Saint Louis University, 2007). Order No. DA3324201.
Perelman, Josh, “Choreographing Identity: Modern Dance and American Jewish Life, 1924–1954” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330351.
Randall, Tresa M., “Hanya Holm in America, 1931–1936: Dance, Culture, and Community” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3320021.
Schroeder, Elizabeth R., “The Chicago Black Renaissance: Exercises in Aesthetic Ideology and Cultural Geography in Bronzeville, 1932–1945” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324214.
Smith, Laura E., “Obscuring the Distinctions, Revealing the Divergent Visions: Modernity and Indians in the Early Works of Kiowa Photographer Horace Poolaw, 1925–1945” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3330805.
Weller, Rebecca Ann, “Los Angeles Look(ing): Process, Perception, and Popular Culture in the Art of Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and John McCracken” (University of Delaware, 2008). Order No. DA3325499.
Cushing, Lincoln, and Timothy W. Drescher, Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labor Posters. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. 205 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8014-7427-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Pfeffenberger, Dyne L., The Historic Fort Wayne Embassy Theatre. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xvi, 91 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-253-31369-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Seniors, Paula Marie, Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. xvi, 292 pp. $54.95, isbn 978-0-8142-1100-7.)
Davis, Anita Price, New Deal Art in Virginia: The Oils, Murals, Reliefs, and Frescoes, and Their Creators. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. vi, 218 pp. Paper, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7864-4185-3.) Heavily illustrated.
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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