I am pleased to announce the release of the spring 2021 issue of American Art (vol. 35, no. 1).  

   

Commentaries:  

·                     Introduction, by David Brody  

·                     Dancing in the Flames: Early American Andirons, by Jennifer Van Horn  

·                     Add Bates, the 306 Studio, and Interlocking Modernisms in Mid-Twentieth-Century Harlem, by Kristina Wilson  

·                     Driving the American Dream: Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg, by Rhoda Eitel-Porter  

·                     Designing Polaroid: Ansel Adams as Consultant, by Jennifer Quick  

Feature Articles:  

·                     An Artist in the Secular World: Paul Thek’s Relics, by Paisid Aramphongphan, the 2019 Terra International Essay Prize winner   

·                     Tonita Peña and the Politics of Pueblo Art, by Elizabeth S. Hawley  

·                     Sonja Sekula and “Art of the Mentally Ill,” by Jenny Anger  

 

 

Call for Papers “Seeing the Survey Anew: White Racial Formation in the History of American Art” Deadline: May 1, 2021 

 

For submissions guidelines, see: journals.uchicago.edu/journals/amart/instruct. 

Inquiries welcome! 

 

Robin Veder  

Executive Editor, American Art  

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery  

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