Recent Scholarship
Visual and Performing Arts
DeVereaux, Constance, “Any Way the Wind Blows: Changing Dynamics in American Arts Policy,” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 36 (Fall 2006), 168–80.
Dryer, Joel S., “The First Art Exhibition in Chicago,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 99 (Spring–Summer 2006), 28–45.
Gerland, Oliver, “From Playhouse to P2P Network: The History and Theory of Performance under Copyright Law in the United States,” Theatre Journal, 59 (March 2007), 75–95.
Goodwin, Lorinda B. R., “The Archaeological Gaze: Surveying the Landscape of Social Power in Portraiture in Colonial New England,” Historical Archaeology, 41 (no. 1, 2007), 53–68. Heavily illustrated.
Hassrick, Peter H., “William Ranney’s Hunting Wild Horses,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 348–60.
Krasner, Jonathan B., “The Interwar Family and American Jewish Identity in Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!,” Jewish Social Studies, 13 (Fall 2006), 2–30.
Lorensen, Jutta, “Between Image and Word, Color and Time: Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 571–86.
Mazow, Leo G., “John Covert, Tetraphilia, and the Game of Time,” Winterthur Portfolio, 41 (Spring 2007), 21–42. Heavily illustrated.
Musso, Joseph, “A Reevaluation of ‘The Face behind the Knife,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Jan. 2007), 362–78.
Orcutt, Kimberly, “H. H. Moore’s Almeh and the Politics of the Centennial Exhibition,” American Art, 21 (Spring 2007), 50–73. Heavily illustrated.
Pappas, Andrea, “Invisible Points of Departure: Reading Rothko’s Christological Imagery,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 401–36.
Rainey, Sue, “Picturesque California: How Westerners Portrayed the West in the Age of John Muir,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Reaves, Wendy Wick, “‘Reading’ Portrait Prints: New Ways of Seeing Old Faces,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Rice, Stephen P., “Photography in Engraving on Wood: On the Road to the Halftone Revolution,” Common-Place, 7 (April 2007), http://www.common-place.org. Heavily illustrated.
Trochimczyk, Maja, “The Impact of Mazowsze and Slask on Polish Folk Dancing in California,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Spring 2006), 5–34.
Whitaker, Kathleen, and Shannon Glydon Parker, “Bound to Its Origins: The Past and Present of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research,” American Indian Art Magazine, 32 (Spring 2007), 72–85. Heavily illustrated.
Baar, K. Kevyne, “Investigating Broadway: The House Committee on Un-American Activities Meets Members of the New York Theatre Community at the Foley Square Courthouse, August 15–18, 1955” (Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2006). Order No. DA3221146.
Berkowitz, Ellie Patricia, “Innovation through Appropriation as an Alternative to Separatism: The Use of Commercial Imagery by Chicano Artists, 1960–1990” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3221361.
Edwards, Katie Robinson, “Jackson Pollock in the Cultural Context of America, 1943–1956: Class, ‘Mess,’ and UnAmerican Activities” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3223005.
Korenic, Lynette Marie, “The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3226267.
Swedberg, Anne Kristin, “Take It Outside: Community-Based Theater and Maryat Lee, 1949–1989” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222901.
VanArragon, Elizabeth Jane, “The Photo League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225681.
Wang, Shi-Pu, “Becoming American? Asian Identity Negotiated thrugh the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006). Order No. DA3226281.
Zygmont, Bryan John, “Portraiture and Politics in New York City, 1790–1825: Stuart, Vanderlyn, Trumbull, and Jarvis” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222458.
Doris, Sara, Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 304 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-521-83658-6.)
Rosenberg, Chaim M., Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-579-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55849-580-7.) Heavily illustrated.
Schanke, Robert A., ed., Angels in the American Theater: Patrons, Patronage, and Philanthropy. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. xvi, 314 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8093-2747-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Sokalski, J.A., Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele MacKaye. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. 336 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-773-53204-8.)
Ward, Gerald W. R., et al., American Decorative Arts and Sculpture. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-87846-698-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Kierner, Cynthia A., The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. x, 147 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4792-6. Paper, $17.00, isbn 978-0-8147-4793-3.) First published in 1790.
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