Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
Arp, Don, Jr., “The Face behind the Knife: A Study of the James Bowie Portrait Purchased by the Texas Historical Commission and the State Preservation Board,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 109 (Jan. 2006), 303–17.
Barter, Judith A., “True to the Senses and False in Its Essence: Still Life and Trompe l’Oeil Painting in Victorian America,” Museum Studies, 31 (no. 1, 2005), 32–43. Heavily illustrated.
Clapper, Michael, “Reconstructing a Family: John Rogers’s Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations,” Winterthur Portfolio, 39 (Winter 2004), 259–77. Heavily illustrated.
Clark, Thomas, “The Last Stand? Manliness and Race in the Work of Frederic Remington,” in America: Home of the Brave, ed. Michal Peprník and Matthew Sweeney, 51–73. (Olomouc: vup, 2005. isbn 80-244-1064-8.)
Dassori, Emma, “Performing the Woman Question: The Emergence of Anti-suffrage Drama,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 19 (Dec. 2005), 301–17.
Fahlman, Betsy, “The Great Draper Woman: Muriel Draper and the Art of the Salon,” Woman’s Art Journal, 26 (Fall–Winter 2005–2006), 33–37. Heavily illustrated.
Friedman, Marilyn F., “The United States and the 1925 Paris Exposition: Opportunity Lost and Found,” Studies in the Decorative Arts, 13 (Fall–Winter 2005–2006), 94–119. Heavily illustrated.
Gallagher, Victoria, and Kenneth S. Zagacki, “Visibility and Rhetoric: The Power of Visual Images in Norman Rockwell’s Depictions of Civil Rights,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91 (May 2005), 175–200.
Gohlke, Frank, “Photography and Place: The Concord Photographs of Herbert W. Gleason,” Exposure, 38 (no. 2, 2005), 14–21. Heavily illustrated.
Hodin, Mark, “‘It Did Not Sound Like a Professor’s Speech’: George Pierce Baker and the Market for Academic Rhetoric,” Theatre Survey, 46 (Nov. 2005), 225–46.
Johnson, Odai, “Working Up from Postholes: (Im)Material Witnesses, Evidence, and Narrativity in the Colonial American Theatre,” Theatre Survey, 46 (Nov. 2005), 183–98.
Katz, Wendy, “Portraits and the Production of the Civil Self in Seventeenth-Century Boston,” Winterthur Portfolio, 39 (Summer–Autumn 2004), 101–28. Heavily illustrated.
Levitt, Alan M., “Picturing the Railway,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 64–75. Heavily illustrated.
Muller, Kevin R., “Pelts and Power, Mohawks and Myth: Benjamin West’s Portrait of Guy Johnson,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Spring 2005), 47–76. Heavily illustrated.
O’Grady, Thomas, “‘The Decisive Moment’: The Metronome All-Stars, 1949,” Journal of American Culture, 28 (Dec. 2005), 377–89.
Osman, Stephen E., “A Moment in Time,” Minnesota History, 59 (Winter 2005–2006), 340–47. Heavily illustrated.
Richards, Jeffrey H., “Politics, Playhouse, and Repertoire in Philadelphia, 1808,” Theatre Survey, 46 (Nov. 2005), 199–224.
Romero, Ramón Espejo, “Some Notes about Arthur Miller’s Drama in Francoist Spain: Towards a European History of Miller,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 39 (Dec. 2005), 485–509.
Sheley, Nancy Strow, “Taking Up the Gauntlet,” American Art, 19 (Fall 2005), 82–91. Heavily illustrated.
Steffensen, Ingrid A., and Patricia Likos Ricci, “Alice Stallknecht: Every Woman to Her Trade,” Woman’s Art Journal, 26 (Fall–Winter 2005–2006), 14–18. Heavily illustrated.
Baum, Rachel Leah, “Andy Warhol, 1962–1965: The Crisis of Modernist Subjectivity in Abstraction” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3173858.
Bischof, Elizabeth MacDonald, “‘Against an epoch’: Boston Moderns, 1880–1905” (Boston College, 2005). Order No. DA3176655.
Branam, Amy C., “Poe and Early (Un)American Drama” (Marquette University, 2005). Order No. DA3172507.
Castelloe, Molly, “Stages of Play: Transitional Behavior and New York City Performance of the 1890–1990s” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170809.
Hole, Heather, “‘America as landscape’: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918–1924” (Princeton University, 2005). Order No. DA3169730.
Hubenthal, John, “A Life in the Newspapers: The American Press and George Grosz, 1922 to 1959” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2005). Order No. DA3177615.
Lancefield, Robert Charles, “Hearing Orientality in (White) America, 1900–1930” (Wesleyan University, 2005). Order No. DA3167976.
Lemmey, Karen Yvonne, “Henry Kirke Brown and the Development of American Public Sculpture in New York City, 1846–1876” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3169946.
Metrick-Chen, Lenore, “Collecting Objects/Excluding People: Chinese Subjects and the American Art Discourse, 1879–1900” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3168365.
Rawles, Susan J., “Facing Independence: American Revolutionary Portraits within the Context of British Identity” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3172895.
Rogers, Kenneth B., “Perceived Time: Boredom and Temporality in Experimental Film and Video (1965–1975)” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170870.
Sheehan, Tanya, “Doctor Photo: The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174673.
Smith, Valerie Rae, “From Text to Performance: The Lydia Thompson Burlesque Company on the Nineteenth-Century British and American Stage” (Tufts University, 2005). Order No. DA3167534.
Strauss, Lauren B., “Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists, Yiddish Culture, and Progressive Politics in New York, 1917–1939” (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2004). Order No. DA3166815.
Weber, Jody Marie, “Dance in Boston, 1860–1950: Converging Influences on Expressive and Contemporary American Dance” (Boston University, 2005). Order No. DA3167750.
Bookbinder, Judith, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005. xii, 372 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-58465-488-0.)
Grafe, Steven L., Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xiv, 221 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8061-3727-4. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3742-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Kinsey, Joni L., Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 260 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-7006-1413-3.) Heavily illustrated.
Lesy, Michael, Angel’s World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto. (New York: Norton, 2006. 127 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-393-06111-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Perry, Claire, Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xii, 236 pp. $50.00, isbn 0-300-10620-3.) Heavily illustrated.
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