
This essay suggests that the interactions that took shape within the physical boundaries of [Stieglitz’s gallery] open insights into the broader dynamics of cultural discrimination and privilege.
This essay suggests that the interactions that took shape within the physical boundaries of [Stieglitz’s gallery] open insights into the broader dynamics of cultural discrimination and privilege.
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: Alfred Stieglitz, Ann Brigman, Hodge Kirnon, Issue 4.2, Marius de Zayas, Modernism, Paul Rosenfeld, Photography, Tara Kohn
The nostalgic painting of provincial oral gossip is haunted by allusions to the rapid mass production and nationalization of newspaper scandal in the 1870s and 1880s.
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: Edward Lamson Henry, Issue 4.2, journalism, Nicole J. Williams, Nineteenth-Century Art
This essay touches on continuities between Thiebaud’s food paintings and his landscape paintings, and on the ways his landscapes broach the seemingly irreconcilable differences between abstraction and representation. Centrally, it engages the ways in which his landscape paintings, focusing on the ecologies of California, engage major human concerns about place, space, and habitation.
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: 3.2, Contemporary Art, ecocriticism, Margaretta M. Lovell, Twentieth-Century Art, Wayne Thiebaud
Discourses of health, hygiene, and progress—visual and textual—provide the primary metric with which to recalibrate thinking about the Panama Canal enterprise and zone as an ecology located at the nexus of intersecting discourses.
Tracing the movement of Stettheimer’s works brings into view a variety of previously unexamined venues in which art and commerce converged. . . . This essay reveals the previously overlooked diversity of Stettheimer’s exhibition practices and argues that the period’s lack of rigid boundaries between art and commercial culture resulted in nuanced class and gender-based mingling and sorting, not democratic equivalence, within the spaces of early twentieth-century American modernism.
For over one hundred years a granite lady-angel has stood beside a life-size seated granite businessman while gazing at a carved cherub below. For a century passers-by have pondered this unusual family, immortalized in stone on a Wisconsin cemetery plot.
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: 3.1, Annette Stott, funerary art, Henry Thiele, Lohr & Weifenbach, Nineteenth-Century Art, sculpture
In the third quarter of the nineteenth century, both baseball and sculpture could serve as markers of and conduits for ascending class and cultural identity, and the remarkable career of John McNamee (c. 1827–1895) brings these two realms together in an unfamiliar but revealing fashion.
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: 3.1, baseball, Douglas Tilden, Isaac Broome, John McNamee, Joseph Willson, Nineteenth-Century Art, Paul H. D. Kaplan, sculpture, Vinnie Ream
The original CAA session examined the intersection of art and invention, and innovation and experimentation in American art from the early nineteenth-century to the 1980s. In this special issue, we present three of those innovative papers from the session, by Elizabeth Bacon Eager, Laura Turner Igoe, and Cary Levine and Philip Glahn.
Kara Walker, the renowned and controversial African American artist, was the subject of a major survey exhibition, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, which was organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and was presented there from February 17, 2007 through May 11, 2008
Category: Feature Articles
Tags: 2.1, African American Art, Contemporary Art, Kara Walker, Vivien Green Fryd
A Dash for the Timber, one of Frederic Remington’s (1861–1909) largest and most characteristic works, was acquired by the collector, Amon Carter, in 1945, and hangs today in the museum bearing his name in Fort Worth, Texas.
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