Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Brigham, David R., “Breaking the ‘Chain of Segregation’: The Pyramid Club Annual Exhibitions,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 3–17.
Kolin, Philip C., “Sacred Vision and Dramatic Space: Voices, Time, and History in The Face of Emmett Till,” Southern Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2008), 76–100.
Lock, Graham, “Blues on the Brush: Rose Piper’s Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the 1940s,” International Review of African American Art, 22 (no. 1, 2008), 18–29.
Macki, Adrienne C., “(Re)constructing Community and Identity: Harlem Experimental Theatre and Social Protest,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 107–39.
Rigal, Laura, “Black Work at the Polling Place: The Color Line in The County Election,” Common-Place, 9 (Oct. 2008), http://www.common-place.org.
Stillman, Amy Ku’uleialoha, “The Hawaiian Hula and Legacies of Institutionalization,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 221–34.
Trainor, Sebastian, “‘It Sounds Too Much Like Comrade’: The Preservation of American Ideals in Room Service,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 20 (Spring 2008), 29–48.
Vlach, John Michael, “Documentary Images and Devotional Acts: Plantation Painting as Propaganda,” in Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, and Enid Schildkrout, 204–15. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 269 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-945802-50-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-945802-51-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Yamamori, Yumiko, “Japanese Arts in America, 1895–1920, and the A. A. Vantine and Yamanaka Companies,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 15 (Spring–Summer 2008), 96–126.
Adams, Virginia, “Illusion and Disillusionment in the Works of Jeff Wall and Gerhard Richter: Picturing (Post)modern Life” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3297284.
Michal, Eileen M., “Picture-Loving: Photomechanical Reproduction and Celebrity in America’s Gilded Age” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3300442.
Persinger, Cynthia L., “The Politics of Style: Meyer Schapiro and the Crisis of Meaning in Art History” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300533.
Rizzo, Laura Katz, “How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Awoke in Philadelphia: Classical Ballet in the Modern American Context, Historicizing the Canon of Classical Ballet” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3300359.
Schwartz, Michael, “A Matter for Experts: Broadway, 1900–1920, and the Rise of the Professional Managerial Class” (University of Pittsburgh, 2007). Order No. DA3300574.
Senf, Rebecca A., “Ansel Adams’s ‘Practical Modernism’: The Development of a Commercial Photographer, 1916–1936” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298676.
Steck, Stuart Y., “Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3298698.
Szasz, Maria, “Philadelphia, Here He Came!: Brian Friel and America” (University of New Mexico, 2007). Order No. DA3298182.
White, Timothy R., “Building ‘Broadway’: Theatre Craft and Show Construction in New York City, 1890–1990” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3299304.
Albacete, M. J., Clyde Singer’s America. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2008. xiv, 185 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-87338-921-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Foster, Kathleen A., Nanette Esseck Brewer, and Margaret Contompasis, Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. viii, 200 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-253-33760-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Gmelch, Sharon Bohn, The Tlingit Encounter with Photography. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2008. xiv, 210 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-934536-10-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Rutledge, Doug, with Abdi Roble, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xiv, 188 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5457-4.) Heavily illustrated.
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