Summer 2016 (2.1)

Editor's Welcome: Issue 2.1

Features

Black and white drawing of a man and woman standing beside an Indian mound

Kara Walker’s About the title: The Ghostly Presence of Transgenerational Trauma as a “Connective Tissue” Between the Past and Present

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Special Section

Image of the top of a tea kettle

Roundtable on Pedagogy: Jules Prown

Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall
Photograph of a chair

Reflections on Teaching American Art History

Jules D. Prown
Painting of a landscape showing several trees, cows, mountains, and a house

Prown’s Students Reflect on Prown

Glenn Adamson, Margaretta M. Lovell, Bryan J. Wolf
Abstract sculpture made with a coyote skull and other materials

Stories from the Front Lines

Sarah Beetham, Sarah Anne Carter,  Jessica L. Horton, Jason D. LaFountain, Kevin R. Muller

In the Round

Research Notes

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From the Research Notes Editors

Kevin M. Murphy, Sally Webster
An illustration depicts a European gentleman with a monocle critically examining a blank framed canvas held by a Native American individual in a feathered headdress.

Fata Morgana: Jean-André Castaigne, the American Indian, and American Artistic Aspirations in France

Emily C. Burns
Header image showing a white bird in flight

Exanimate Subjects: Taxidermy in the Artist’s Studio

Corey Piper

Bully Pulpit

A painting by Komar and Melamid titled 'America's Most Wanted Painting' (1995), featuring an idealized landscape with a lake, mountains, trees, people, and deer.
Catherine Holochwost

Is American Art History Conservative?

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Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle

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Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson

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

Emily Casey

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

Michael Gaudio

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Catherine Holochwost

Catherine Holochwost

Book Reviews

Cover for the publication "Martin Wong: Human Instamatic" by Black Dog Publishing.

Martin Wong: Human Instamatic

Corinna Kirsch
Cover of Hippie Modernism

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Sarah Parrish
Cover of Democratic Art

Democratic Art: The New Deal Influence on American Culture

Caroline M. Riley
Cover image featuring a black and white photograph of a densely packed beach crowd at Coney Island, with the title "CONEY ISLAND" overlaid in yellow marquee-style letters.

Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008

Christopher C. Oliver
A close-up of a ceramic bowl by Martha Post, featuring a vibrant turquoise glaze and horizontal ridges.

American Studio Ceramics, Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

Jennifer A. Zwilling

Exhibition Reviews

Photograph of an art installation showing birds, clocks, and bird cages

Betye Saar: Still Tickin’

Jennifer McCabe
Photo of artist installation showing blue walls, pieces arranged on the walls, tables, and pieces arranged on tables

NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection

M. Elizabeth Boone
Hiram Powers' sculpture, the Greek Slave.

Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave

Jenny Carson
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The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement

Robin Veder
Installation photo showing blue walls and pieces arranged on walls

Art of Jazz: FORM / PERFORMANCE / NOTES

Kelsey Gustin

Talk Back

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Talk Back: “Whither Connoisseurship”?

Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall