Dear Colleagues,

 

I am pleased to announce the release of the Spring 2017 issue of American Art (vol. 31, no. 1), the scholarly journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press. 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Commentaries

Wendy Bellion, “Art and Destruction”

Jo Applin, “Cut Out, Drop Out”

Valerie Hegarty, “Alternative Histories: Three Activations in the Brooklyn Museum’s Early American Period Rooms”

Debra Hess Norris and Jennifer Jae Gutierrez, “Preventing Destruction: Preserving Our Irreplaceable Photographic Heritage”

 

Feature Articles

Charles C. Eldredge, “Discovering Davies-Land: Arthur B. Davies in the West, 1905”

David M. Lubin, “Claggett Wilson: The War Portfolio of 1919”

Lindsay J. Twa, “Thoughts of Haiti, Thoughts of Liberia: The Shifting Titles and Interpretations of Edwin White’s Thoughts of the Future”

 

New Perspectives

Hadrien Viraben, “Constructing a Reputation: Achille Segard’s 1913 Biography of Mary Cassatt”

James Nisbet, “Environmental Abstraction and the Polluted Image”

 

To access the new issue, please visit: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/amart/current.

 

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Best wishes,

Marie Ladino

 

 

Marie Ladino

Managing Editor, American Art

Research and Scholars Center

Smithsonian American Art Museum