Summer 2016 (2.1) Archives

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

June 13, 2016 / Feature Article

Special Section

Roundtable on Pedagogy: Jules Prown

Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall

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

Art and Invention in the United States

Ellery E. Foutch, Hélène Valance

Creative Combustion: Image, Imagination and the Work of Robert Fulton

Elizabeth Bacon Eager

Capturing “Jove’s Autograph”: Late Nineteenth-Century Lightning Photography and Electrical Agency

Laura Turner Igoe

Interrogating Invention: Electronic Café and the Politics of Technology

Cary Levine, Philip Glahn

Research Notes

From the Research Notes Editors

Kevin M. Murphy, Sally Webster

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

Catherine Holochwost

Is American Art History Conservative?

Jennifer Doyle

Bruce Robertson

Emily Casey

Michael Gaudio

Catherine Holochwost

Book Reviews

Martin Wong: Human Instamatic

Corinna Kirsch

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Sarah Parrish

Democratic Art: The New Deal Influence on American Culture

Caroline M. Riley

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

Christopher C. Oliver

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

Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave

Jenny Carson

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

Talk Back: “Whither Connoisseurship”?

Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall