Spring 2023 (9.1) Archives - Panorama

Features

Timothy H. O'Sullivan's photograph shows miners and equipment at the Curtis Shaft of the Gould & Curry Mine.

Framing Silver’s Void in Timothy H. O’Sullivan’s Photographs of the Gould & Curry Mine

June 7, 2023 / Feature Article

In the Round

A smiling woman in a sequined outfit and feathered headpiece poses with a paintbrush in an artist's studio surrounded by pin-up style paintings.

Producing and Consuming the Image of the Female Artist

Ellery E. Foutch

A vintage Kodak Instamatic advertisement features a Black woman demonstrating how to load the camera.

“Shutterbug?”: Black Women Photographers and the Politics of Self-Representation

Emily Brady

Anita Steckel's feminist collage titled 'Middleman' features nine panels reinterpreting Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam' with superimposed female figures and vibrant, layered colors.

Self-Portraits and Photocopies: Anita Steckel’s Feminist Collage

Rachel Middleman

A tapestry by Vigneault depicts a person with elaborate tattoos taking a photo with a smartphone.

Pos(t)ing Online, or the Other Side of the Glass for Looking

Marissa Vigneault

A scholar of gender studies reads Judith Butler's "Undoing Gender" while seated on a desk in an office.

Woman As Image

Alison J Carr

Research Notes

An illustration of the Penn Treaty Wampum Belt, featuring stylized human figures made of blue and white beads.

Re-reading Wampum: The Penn Treaty Belt and Indeterminate Iconographies

Kerr Houston

A ledger drawing depicts Lakota leader Short Bull on horseback, leading a second horse.

Interpretation as Introspection: Transforming Narratives of American Art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum

Hannah Wirta Kinney, Alexandra Letvin

An elaborate painting depicts a heron standing in red water among blue lotus flowers, encircled by a blue spiral containing a procession of male faces, a red planet, and pyramid-like structures.

Archival Assembly: The Black Artists of Oklahoma Project and Art-Historical Infrastructure

Olivia von Gries, Robert Bailey

Colloquium

A black and white photograph by Alex Katz shows a dark body of water in the foreground, a wooden pier with several small figures sitting on it, and a large corrugated building wall behind, featuring a prominent dark

Beyond Copyright: How Does Law Impact Art?

Wendy Katz, Lauren van Haaften-Schick

A black and white copyright symbol.

Mining Raw Materials: Copyright, Contemporary Art, and False Dichotomies

Katherine de Vos Devine

Tax expert Lynn Steinberg sits on an ornate red sofa in a grand room filled with paintings, as a man stands to her right.

Loopholes for Some, Taxes for Everyone Else

Monica Steinberg

The Hawaiʻi State Capitol building in Honolulu, featuring its distinctive architecture, a statue, and the state seal, seen from a green lawn.

Hawai‘i Land Struggles and a Pacific Statehouse

Kelema Lee Moses

A tiled wall covered in graffiti and stickers features a white sign with the Spanish text "Tu país está en guerra con sus mujeres" (Your country is at war with its women) above the green,

“Reading like a Poet” between the Lines of the Cultural Exemption and the Mexican Exception

Amy Sara Carroll

A red Eames Molded Plastic Armchair with a black wire base is featured on the Herman Miller website.

What’s American about American Industrial Design? US Laws

Carma Gorman

An antique advertisement for Andes Insurance Co. of Cincinnati, depicting a tropical mountain landscape and displaying "$1,000,000."

Insurance: Beyond Law

Matthew C. Hunter

Digital Dialogues

A handwritten archival document lists books and catalogs referencing artist Martin Wong, including titles, dates, and page numbers.

Section Theme: Digital Catalogues Raisonnés

Jennifer Way, Tracy Stuber

An oil painting of a man with a dark beard and hair, looking directly at the viewer.

My Advocacy for the Digital Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills

A screenshot of an online art catalog displaying categories such as "Bricks" and "Fingerspelling," characteristic of artist Martin Wong's work.

Naming Martin Wong

Marci Kwon

A grayscale painting by Carl Rungius depicts a large moose standing among tree stumps in a wilderness landscape.

Genesis of the Carl Rungius Catalogue Raisonné

Adam Duncan Harris

A screenshot of a digital catalogue raisonné entry for Vincent van Gogh's "Irises", displaying the painting, artist, and provenance details within an online interface.

More Than Just a Database: The Endless Possibilities of Digital Catalogues Raisonnés

Lisa Weiß

A black and white painting by Joaquín Torres-García on wood panels, depicting a grid filled with various pictograms and symbols.

A Conversation on the Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné

Susanna V. Temkin, Cecilia de Torres

A graphic for "Highpoint Editions: A History & Catalogue, 2001-20" by Dennis Michael Jon, Jennifer L. Roberts, and Jill Ahlberg Yohe, featuring abstract black and blue shapes on a textured background.

Highpoint Editions: A History & Catalogue, 2001–2021

Christina Weyl

A close-up of a textured grey stone sculpture featuring an ornate urn and flowing, organic forms against a modern building.

Digital-Born Catalogues Raisonnés and Networked Art Histories

Emily L. Voelker

Book Reviews

Title card for 'Wandering Whalemen and Their Art: A Collection of Scrimshaw Masterpieces' by Alan Granby, featuring a scrimshaw etching of a whaling ship.

Wandering Whalemen and Their Art: A Collection of Scrimshaw Masterpieces

Michael R. Harrison

A black and white collage of historical Canadian women photographers, many holding cameras, arranged in an aperture-like circle over faded photographic text.

Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940

Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere

Winslow Homer's painting "A Fresh Breeze" depicts Cullercoats fisherwomen carrying baskets and a child on a wet, stormy beach.

Winslow Homer and His Cullercoats Paintings: An American Artist in England’s Northeast

Diana Jocelyn Greenwold

A painting depicts a bunch of bananas with small fighter jet models resting on and around them.

The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion

Nika Elder

Mid-century modern model Dorothy Rittner poses with a decorative art piece.

Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design

Jennifer Rittner

Exhibition Reviews

An assemblage by Lonnie B. Holman made from painted and textured tin pieces, each featuring a stylized figure.

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South

Matthew Holman

Two large, intricate sculptures by Nam June Paik are displayed in a dark gallery, one a robot-like figure made of televisions and neon lights with a motorcycle, the other a wooden structure incorporating screens and

The Consultant: Paik’s Papers, 1968–1979

Sera Jung

An exhibition by Vences features three framed mirrors on a white wall, reflecting a statue, various artworks, and gallery visitors, with a row of small photographs displayed below.

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archeology of Memory

Javier Arellano Vences

A portrait of artist Will Wilson from his "Auto Immune Response" series is displayed on a tablet, with a framed print of a similar portrait visible in the background.

In Conversation: Will Wilson

Keidra Daniels Navaroli

Maya Lin's art installation "A Study of Water" depicts a green topographical map of a river system spreading across white gallery walls and a wooden floor.

Maya Lin: A Study of Water

Morgan J. Brittain

Talk Back

The Work of Undoing

Shira Brisman