Art of the United States

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Exh. cat. Salem, Washington, DC, and New Haven: Peabody Essex Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 392 pp.; 183 color ills.; 114 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300111620)

Exhibition schedule: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, November 17, 2006–February 19, 2007; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, April 28–August 19, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 6, 2007–January 6, 2008

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April 22, 2008
Kim Sloan
A New World: England's First View of America
Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780807858257)

Exhibition schedule: British Museum, March 15–June, 17 2007; Yale Center for British Art, March 6–June 1, 2008

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March 25, 2008
Angela Miller, Janet Berlo, Bryan Wolf, and Jennifer Roberts
American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. 704 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $100.00 (9780130300041)
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March 11, 2008
Susan Earle, ed.
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Exh. cat. New Haven and Lawrence, KS: Yale University Press in association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2007. 272 pp.; 139 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300121803)

Exhibition schedule: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 8–December 2, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, January 19–April 13, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, May 9–August 3, 2008; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, August 30–November 30, 2008

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February 5, 2008
Blake Stimson
The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 230 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (026269333X)
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Louis Kaplan
American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 248 pp.; 11 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Paper $26.00 (0816645701)
January 15, 2008
Sara Doris
Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture
New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 312 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780521836586)
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December 19, 2007
Lisa E. Bloom
Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity
New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 194 pp.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $105.00 (9780415232203)
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December 13, 2007
Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed.
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with MIT Press, 2007. 512 pp.; 475 color ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780914357995)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, March 4–July 16, 2007; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, September 21–December 16, 2007; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, February–June 2008; and Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009

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September 25, 2007
Gavin Butt
Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 232 pp.; 4 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (0822334984)
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September 19, 2007
Rebecca Zurier
Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 418 pp.; 12 color ills.; 149 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780520220188)
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September 12, 2007
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Exh. cat. Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2006. 184 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. (0295985712)
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Exhibition schedule: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, January 14–March 26, 2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, April 21–July 17, 2006; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, August 25–November 26, 2006
 
September 6, 2007
Charles Brock
Charles Sheeler: Across Media
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 240 pp.; 55 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520248724)

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, May 7–September 4, 2006; Art Institute of Chicago, October 15, 2006–January 7, 2007; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young Museum), February 20–May 6, 2007

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June 12, 2007
Wendy Jean Katz
Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati
Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2002. 280 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $44.95 (0814209068)
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April 13, 2007
Teresa A. Carbone
American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876
Brooklyn Museum in association with D Giles Limited, 2006. 1152 pp.; 160 color ills.; 860 b/w ills. Cloth (1904832083)
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January 29, 2007
Wayne Craven
Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
Columbia University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)
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November 7, 2006
Robert Storr
Elizabeth Murray
Museum of Modern Art, 2005. 236 pp.; 150 ills. Cloth $55.00 (0870704931)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 23, 2005–January 9, 2006

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May 17, 2006
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Brigette Salmen, and Karole Vail
Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2005. 300 pp. Cloth $60.00 (0892073276)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20–August 10, 2005; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, and Schlossmuseum, Murnau, September 8, 2005–January 15, 2006; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, May 4–July 30, 2006

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Thalia Vrachopoulos and John Angeline
Hilla Rebay: Art Patroness and Founder of the Guggenheim Museum of Art.
Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 107 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (0773462554)
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March 8, 2006
Samantha Baskind
Raphael Soyer & the Search for Modern Jewish Art
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 280 pp.; 9 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0807828483)
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June 29, 2005
Women on the Verge: The Culture of Neurasthenia in Nineteenth-Century America
Exh. cat. Palo Alto: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2004. 86 pp.; 19 color ills.; 27 b/w ills. $24.95 (0937031259)

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., October 20, 2004–February 6, 2005

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May 9, 2005
Michael Leja
Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 313 pp.; 24 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0520238079)
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April 21, 2005
Terry Smith
Making Manhattan Modern, But Not Contemporary, Again: Reopening Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, November 2004
College Art Association, 2005
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February 14, 2005
Marcia Brennan
Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 377 pp.; 8 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0262024888)
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March 17, 2003
Julie K. Brown
Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of Photography at Fairs, Expositions, and Exhibitions in the United States, 1847–1900
Routledge, 2001. 192 pp. Cloth $54.00 (9058231399)
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January 10, 2003
Laura R. Prieto
At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. 292 pp.; 13 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0674004868)
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Kirsten Swinth
Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 328 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (0807849715)
October 24, 2002
Amelia Peck and Carol Irish
Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1876–1900
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 2001. 288 pp.; 80 color ills.; 108 b/w ills. $45.00 (0300090811)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 9, 2001-January 6, 2002
 
October 4, 2002
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat, eds.
Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861
Yale University Press, 2000. 652 pp.; 412 color ills.; 230 b/w ills. Cloth (0300085184)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 19, 2000-January 7, 2001
 
September 25, 2002
David Morgan and Sally M. Promey, eds.
The Visual Culture of American Religions
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 441 pp.; 16 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0520225228)
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June 14, 2002
Bert Winther-Tamaki
Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 222 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (0824824008)
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April 4, 2002
Jonathan Weinberg
Ambition and Love in Modern American Art
Yale University Press, 2001. 336 pp.; 164 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300081871)
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February 15, 2002
Daniel M. Abramson
Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street
Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 207 pp.; 76 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (1568992445)
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January 16, 2002
Marcus Wood
Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America 1780-1865
Routledge, 2000. 341 pp.; 7 color ills.; 168 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (041592698x)
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January 11, 2002
Robert Shlaer
Sights Once Seen: Daguerrotyping Frémont’s Last Expedition Through the Rockies
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000. 176 pp.; 126 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0890133409)
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Douglas Nickel
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 228 pp.; 20 color ills.; 85 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810941023)
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November 19, 2001
Douglas Nickel
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. 228 pp.; 20 color ills.; 85 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0810941023)
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November 7, 2001
Robin Jaffee Frank
Love and Loss: American Portrait and Mourning Miniatures
Yale University Press, 2000. 362 pp.; 100 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300087241)
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Yale University Art Gallery, October 3-December 30, 2000; Gibbes Museum of Art, February 10-April 8, 2001; and Addison Gallery of American Art, April 27-July 31, 2001.
 
August 31, 2001
David B. Dearinger, ed.
Rave Reviews: American Art and Its Critics, 1826-1925
Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000. 305 pp.; 80 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (1887149058)

National Academy of Design, New York, Sept. 20-Dec. 31, 2000; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK Jan. 31-April 1, 2001; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianaoplis, IN, April 29-July 1, 2001.

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July 17, 2001
Malcolm Goldstein
Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
Oxford University Press, 2000. 370 pp. Cloth (019513673X)
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June 8, 2001
Holly Edwards, ed.
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America
Princeton: Princeton University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2000. 242 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (069105004X)

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, June 11-September 4, 2000; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, October 1-December 10, 2000; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, February 3-April 22, 2001.

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March 29, 2001
Milly Heyd
Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. 272 pp.; 112 b/w ills. Paper $24.00 (0813526183)
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February 19, 2001
Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman, and Jenna Webster
Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times
Cambridge, MA: Yale University Press in association with Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Museums, 2000. 340 pp.; 24 color ills.; 246 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300083157)

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, February 5-April 30, 2000; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 10-August 27, 2000; The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, October 14, 2000-January 27, 2001; David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago, April 19-June 17, 2001.

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January 25, 2001
Gail E. Husch
Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expression and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting
Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000. 384 pp.; 12 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (1584650060)
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January 25, 2001
Barbara Dayer Gallati
William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapist
Harry N. Abrams in association with Brooklyn Museum, 2000. 192 pp.; 54 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $37.50 (0810945584)

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, May 26-August 13, 2000; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 7-November 26, 2000; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 13, 2000-March 11, 2001.

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January 25, 2001
Frascina Francis
Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America
Manchester University Press, 2000. 248 pp.; none color ills.; few b/w ills.; 0 ills. Paper $69.95 (0719044685)
November 10, 2000
Benjamin Buchloh
Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
MIT Press, 2001. 576 pp.; 122 b/w ills. Cloth (0262024543)
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September 27, 2000
Theodore Stebbins
Martin Johnson Heade
Yale University Press, 2000. 208 pp.; 112 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0300081693)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 28-August 13, 2000; National Gallery of Art, February 13-May 7, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 29, 1999-January 17, 2000.

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Theodore Stebbins
The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné
Yale University Press, 2000. 496 pp.; 84 color ills.; 690 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300081839)
August 23, 2000
Teresa Carbone and Patricia Hills
Eastman Johnson: Painting America
Rizzoli, 1999. 272 pp.; 110 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0847822141)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 29, 1999-February 6, 2000; San Diego Museum of Art, February 26-May 21, 2000; Seattle Museum of Art.
 
August 23, 2000
Wanda Corn
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity 1915-1935
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 470 pp.; 140 color ills.; 181 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0520210492)
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July 14, 2000
Maureen Hennessey
Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Cloth (0810963922)

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 6, 1999-January 30, 2000; Chicago Historical Society, February 26-May 21, 2000; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 17-September 24, 2000; San Diego Museum of Art, October 28-December 31, 2000; Phoenix Art Museum, February 24-May 6, 2001; The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, June 9-October 8, 2001; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, November 7, 2001-February 11, 2002.

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June 26, 2000
William Alexander McClung
Landscapes of Desire: Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 300 pp.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth (0520218272)
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April 15, 2000
David Morgan
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
Oxford University Press, 1999. 418 pp. Cloth $35.00 (0195130294)
March 23, 2000
Yve-Alain Bois
Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948–1955
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 263 pp.; 185 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (1891771078)

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, Mar. 6-May 16, 1999; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Jun. 8-Aug. 15, 1999; Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 11-Dec. 5, 1999

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Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, Mar. 6-May 16, 1999; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Jun. 8-Aug. 15, 1999; Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 11-Dec. 5, 1999
 
February 29, 2000
Ken Breisch
Henry Hobson Richardson and the Small Public Library in America
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 354 pp. Cloth (0262523469)
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February 17, 2000
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
Washington, DC: Yale University Press in association with The Phillips Collection, 1999. 160 pp.; 80 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., April 17–July 18, 1999; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 7–October 17, 1999; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, November 7, 1999–January 30, 2000; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, February 19–May 14, 2000.

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February 11, 2000
Mark Johnstone
Contemporary Art in Southern California
Newark, N.J.: G + B Arts International, 1999. 208 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. (9057033216)
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February 9, 2000
Melissa Dabakis
Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935
Cambridge University Press, 1999. 312 pp.; 312 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0521461472)
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February 2, 2000
Claire Perry
Pacific Arcadia: Images of California 1600-1915
Oxford University Press, 1999. 256 pp.; 60 color ills.; 154 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0195109376)

Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California, April 21-June 27, 1999; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, October 30, 1999-January 9, 2000; Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska, February 19-April 30, 2000.