Spring 2022 (8.1)

Editor's Welcome: Issue 8.1

Features

A framed artwork displays a brown, creased paper forming a silhouette profile labeled "Flora’s profile" alongside a smaller handwritten bill of sale for "a Negro woman named Flora, 19 years old."

Seeing Flora’s Profile as Portrait

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Mary Cassatt's painting "La Femme au tournesol" (Woman with a Sunflower) depicts a woman in a yellow dress with a sunflower holding a mirror for a child seated on her lap.

“The Sunflower’s Bloom of Women’s Equality”: New Contexts for Mary Cassatt’s La Femme au tournesol

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Regina Agu's multi-panel panoramic artwork, featuring a wide expanse of water and sky, is displayed across a wall in a classical museum gallery with large white columns.

Visuality and the Plantationocene: The Panoramas of Regina Agu

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In the Round

Research Notes

A black and white illustration of a man in a top hat and striped coat, whose face has been iconoclastically defaced, from Henry Bibb's 1849

Iconoclasm on Paper: Resistance in the Pages of Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, 1849

Ellery E. Foutch
An art studio features multiple easels displaying paintings, a rolling workstation, and a large window overlooking a vibrant bamboo garden.

“Moral Lessons”: Charles Deas’s The Wounded Pawnee

Carol Clark
Black-and-white photograph of a table scattered with newspaper, paintings in a Native American idiom, and art supplies

Naming Naquayouma: A Collaborative Approach to American Murals and Indigeneity at the 1937 International Exposition

Davida Fernández-Barkan, Phillippa Pitts

Colloquium

Film still from Alex Dolores Salerno's film El Dios Acostado. Echo lies on his side facing away from the camera in a clearing in the grass. In front of him are dense green trees and bushes and a few small buildings in the distance. Farther away is a large mountain overlooking the scene. The sky is bright and cloudy. There is a sense of serenity and rest.

Exploring Indisposability: The Entanglements of Crip Art

Jessica A. Cooley, Ann M. Fox
The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

Unsolid Ground/Pile

Kevin Quiles Bonilla
The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

Mississippi Appendectomy

Heather Lynn Johnson
The word 'PANORAMA' in bold white capital letters on a black background, with 'PANO' on the first line and 'RAMA' on the second.

BRUISED

Pamela Sneed
Abstract photographic composition with black, blue, and white hues, with some red, forming an irregular grid

TEXERE: The Shape of Loss Is a Tapestry

Indira Allegra
A gloved hand holds The New York Times front page from May 24, 2020, featuring the headline "U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,

Melancholy as Medium

Jill H. Casid
A large white Hybrid Air Vehicles airship flies above a vast, misty green forest.

More from 3AM

Allison Leigh Holt

Book Reviews

A woodcut illustration of Father Time, a winged and bearded figure holding an hourglass and a scythe.

The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania

Christopher M. B. Allison
An ornate, colorful header illustration features intricate blue, gold, pink, and green scrollwork.

Gems of Art on Paper: Illustrated American Fiction and Poetry, 1785–1885

Julie Mellby
A data visualization resembling a bar chart, composed of eight vertical segments of varying heights, each displaying a cropped section of a 19th-century painting featuring diverse subjects like landscapes, figures, and

Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art

Elizabeth L. Block
A surrealist graphic print features overlapping yellow, red, green, and black shapes, with text reading "EXTRA unconscious" and "CONTENTS 1 PINT" on a distorted product label.

Remade in America: Surrealist Art, Activism and Politics, 1940–1978

Sandra Zalman

Exhibition Reviews

A grid of 15 diverse art exhibition and book cover images, including "Yolanda López Portrait of the Artist" and "Marisol and Warhol take New York."

Exhibition Reviews in the Time of COVID-19

The Panorama Exhibition Reviews Editors
An exhibition space with vibrant orange walls displays numerous framed paintings from the "Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France" exhibition, with two black benches on a dark wood floor.

Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France

Annette Stott
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting "Street, New York, No. 1" depicts a dramatic night cityscape with towering dark buildings framing a bright moon in a blue sky, a glowing streetlamp, and a distant red light.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Beatriz Cordero
An exhibition view shows multiple framed landscape drawings by Joseph E. Yoakum displayed on a dark teal gallery wall.

Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith
A dozen individuals, primarily women, in vibrant, eclectic attire pose outdoors, associated with Cauleen Smith's "Give It or Leave It" project.

Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It

Emma Silverman