Summer 2016 (2.1)

Issue 2.1
Editors' Welcome

Issue 2.1

Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall
Black and white drawing of a man and woman standing beside an Indian mound
Feature Article

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

Vivien Green Fryd
Image of the top of a tea kettle
Special Section

Roundtable on Pedagogy: Jules Prown

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

Reflections on Teaching American Art History

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

Prown’s Students Reflect on Prown

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

Stories from the Front Lines

Sarah Beetham, Sarah Anne Carter,  Jessica L. Horton, Jason D. LaFountain, Kevin R. Muller
The Progress of the Century
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
In the Round

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

Elizabeth Bacon Eager
Lightning Photograph
In the Round

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

Laura Turner Igoe
Interrogating Invention: Electronic Café and the Politics of Technology
In the Round

Interrogating Invention: Electronic Café and the Politics of Technology

Cary Levine, Philip Glahn
From the Research Notes Editors
Research Note

From the Research Notes Editors

Kevin M. Murphy, Sally Webster
Fata Morgana: Jean-André Castaigne, the American Indian, and American Artistic Aspirations in France
Research Note

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
Research Note

Exanimate Subjects: Taxidermy in the Artist’s Studio

Corey Piper
Is American Art History Conservative?
Bully Pulpit
Catherine Holochwost

Is American Art History Conservative?

Jennifer Doyle
Bully Pulpit

Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle
Bruce Robertson
Bully Pulpit

Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson
Emily Casey
Bully Pulpit

Emily Casey

Emily Casey
Michael Gaudio
Bully Pulpit

Michael Gaudio

Michael Gaudio
Catherine Holochwost
Bully Pulpit

Catherine Holochwost

Catherine Holochwost
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic
Book Review

Martin Wong: Human Instamatic

Reviewed by Corinna Kirsch
Cover of Hippie Modernism
Book Review

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Reviewed by Sarah Parrish
Talk Back: “Whither Connoisseurship”?
Talk Back

Talk Back: “Whither Connoisseurship”?

Reviewed by Ross Barrett, Sarah Burns, Jennifer Jane Marshall
Cover of Democratic Art
Book Review

Democratic Art: The New Deal Influence on American Culture

Reviewed by Caroline M. Riley
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008
Book Review

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

Reviewed by Christopher C. Oliver
American Studio Ceramics, Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979
Book Review

American Studio Ceramics, Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979

Reviewed by Jennifer A. Zwilling
Photograph of an art installation showing birds, clocks, and bird cages
Exhibition Review

Betye Saar: Still Tickin’

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

NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection

Reviewed by M. Elizabeth Boone
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
Exhibition Review

Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave

Reviewed by Jenny Carson
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement
Exhibition Review

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

Reviewed by Robin Veder
Installation photo showing blue walls and pieces arranged on walls
Exhibition Review

Art of Jazz: FORM / PERFORMANCE / NOTES

Reviewed by Kelsey Gustin