Spring 2019 (5.1)

Issue 5.1
Editors' Welcome

Issue 5.1

M. Elizabeth Boone, John Bowles, Austen Barron Bailly
Header image showing an impressionist painting of women in the Edwardian era in a shoe shop
Feature Article

The Girl Behind the Counter: Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones and the Modern Shop Girl

Elizabeth Carlson
Amateurism and American Visual Culture: An Introduction
In the Round

Amateurism and American Visual Culture: An Introduction

Justin Wolff
Illustration of abstract figures riding horses
In the Round

The Critical Deployment of Amateurism in 1910s New York

Sarah Archino
A page of writing with short-hand symbols practiced on it
In the Round

Walk with Me: William Anastasi’s Stenography of the Street

Katie Anania
2 Abstract shapes in red, orange, and green with a small male and female couple on the bottom
In the Round

The Love in Labor: Reconsidering Amateurism in Sister Gertrude Morgan’s Performances and Paintings

Elaine Y. Yau
Woman with a pink scarf over her head
In the Round

“It’s Making a Little Noise”: Video Art, A Radical Mess

Miguel de Baca
Portrait of a white man wearing a black suit
In the Round

Amateur Status? George W. Bush as Contemporary Artist

Kim Grant
Header image of a landscape painting of trees and the river and mountains in the background
Research Note

Asher Durand’s Progress Reconsidered

Rebecca Bedell
Ecocriticism
Bully Pulpit
Karl Kusserow

Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and the Rights of Nature
Bully Pulpit

Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and the Rights of Nature

Joni Adamson
Art as Long Environmentalism
Bully Pulpit

Art as Long Environmentalism

Subhankar Banerjee
Historical Art, Ecology, and Implication
Bully Pulpit

Historical Art, Ecology, and Implication

Alan C. Braddock
Ecology-as-Intrasectionality
Bully Pulpit

Ecology-as-Intrasectionality

T. J. Demos
Art History, Time, and the Anthropocene
Bully Pulpit

Art History, Time, and the Anthropocene

Stephen F. Eisenman
Ecolonial Holism
Bully Pulpit

Ecolonial Holism

Jessica L. Horton
Going Outside, Beyond the Frame
Bully Pulpit

Going Outside, Beyond the Frame

Sarah Kanouse
A Material World: Culture, Society and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America
Book Review

A Material World: Culture, Society and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America

Reviewed by Wendy Jean Katz
The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
Book Review

The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States

Reviewed by Dafne Cruz Porchini
Black and white drawing of white domed government buildings and American flag
Book Review

Power and Posterity: American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Reviewed by Erin Pauwels
Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France
Book Review

Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France

Reviewed by Jennifer R. Henneman
Book cover showing a woman wearing a white dress with the dress bodice pulled low across her bosom
Book Review

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

Reviewed by Jonathan Frederick Walz
Flintstone Modernism: or, The Crisis in Postwar American Culture
Book Review

Flintstone Modernism: or, The Crisis in Postwar American Culture

Reviewed by Alexandra Fraser
Book cover showing a white man in a grocery store looking at Campbell's soup cans
Book Review

Warhol’s Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism

Reviewed by Liam Considine
Header image with a magenta pink background and white text "Radical Eroticism"
Book Review

Radical Eroticism: Women, Art, and Sex in the 1960s

Reviewed by Miriam Kienle
Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation
Book Review

Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation

Reviewed by Louise Siddons
header image painting of farmland fields with a scarecrow in the foreground
Exhibition Review

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment

Reviewed by Emily Gephart
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Exhibition Review

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Reviewed by Jami Powell
Photograph of a basketball court with writing around the picture
Exhibition Review

The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison

Reviewed by Beth A. Zinsli
art installation of several tubular pieces shaped like droplets
Exhibition Review

Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work

Reviewed by John Klein
gallery room with several kimono on display with sculpture and paintings
Exhibition Review

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Reviewed by Samantha Baskind
Abstract painting with black, yellow, white, blue, red, and green shapes
Exhibition Review

Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow

Reviewed by M. Rachael Arauz
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Exhibition Review

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

Reviewed by David M. Lubin