Spring 2020 (6.1)

Features

Historical Memory, Reconciliation, and the Shaping of the Postbellum Landscape: The Civil War Monuments of Forest Park, St. Louis

June 16, 2020 / Feature Article

In the Round

“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South

Naomi Slipp

“Whatever is un-Virginian is Wrong!”: The Loyal Slave Trope in Civil War Richmond and the Origins of the Lost Cause

Rachel Stephens

The Architects of Reconstruction: Alcès Family Portraits as Emblems of Afro-Creole Leadership

Wendy Castenell

Confederate Monuments: Southern Heritage or Southern Art?

Sarah Beetham

Woman’s Work: A Confluence of Education, Design, and Craft

Elyse D. Gerstenecker

The Modernist Appalachian Aesthetic: The Art of Patty Willis

Alison Printz

Questions of Texas: Avant Garde and Outlier

Melissa L. Mednicov

Research Notes

A “Studio-House” for Georgia O’Keeffe

Rovang, Sarah

A Portrait on the Move: Photography, Literature, and Transatlantic Exchanges in the Nineteenth Century

Katherine Mintie

“The Bulk of the Best Visible Things”: Judd’s Review of Twentieth Century Engineering at the Museum of Modern Art

Susanneh Bieber

Bully Pulpit

Maggie M. Cao

What is the Place of Empire in the History of American Art?

Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Seeing Empire

Shana Klein

Be Fruitful and Multiply: Food, National Expansion, and the Art of Empire

Taína Caragol, Kate Clarke Lemay

Imperial Visions and Revisions

Florina H. Capistrano-Baker

Inside the Outsider’s Gaze

J. M. Mancini

Enacting Empire: War and the History of American Art

Stacy L. Kamehiro

Empire and US Art History from an Oceanic Visual Studies Perspective

Book Reviews

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment

Caroline Culp

The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America

Catherine Holochwost

Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France

Akela Reason

A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

Simona Čupić

Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor

Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander

Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970

Lesley Shipley

Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory

Mary R. Springer

Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York City

Marin R. Sullivan

Exhibition Reviews

Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815–1860

Diana Jocelyn Greenwold

Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art

Eliza Butler

Edward Hopper and the American Hotel

Lee Ann Custer

David Park: A Retrospective

Alan Pocaro

Nicholas Galanin: Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now

Karín Aguilar-San Juan

Talk Back

Talk Back: Responses to “Isn’t It Time for Art History to Go Public?”

Derrick R. Cartwright, Jayne Cole, Laura A. Macaluso, Kelli Morgan