Table of Contents
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction: American Art History Now: A Snapshot 1John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain
Part I Writing American Art History 13
Dialogue 15
1 A Conversation Missed: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Americanist/Modernist Divide 17Joshua Shannon and Jason Weems
2 Response: Setting the Roundtable, or, Prospects for Dialogue between Americanists and Modernists 34Jennifer L. Roberts
3 A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History 49Tanya Sheehan
Dialogue 69
4 On the Social History of American Art 71Alan Wallach
5 Response: Our Cause Is What? 85Robin Kelsey
6 The Maker’s Share: Tools for the Study of Process in American Art 95Ethan W. Lasser
Dialogue 111
7 The Problem with Close Looking 113Martin A. Berger
8 Response: Look Away 128Jennifer A. Greenhill
9 Looking for Thomas Eakins: The Lure of the Archive and the Object 146Kathleen A. Foster
Dialogue 165
10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture 167Rachael Z. DeLue
11 Response: Writing History, Reading Art 183Bryan Wolf
Part II Geographies: Rethinking Americanness 191
12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History 193Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres
13 An American Architecture? 211Dell Upton
14 The Pacific World and American Art History 228J.M. Mancini
15 “Home” and “Homeless” in Art between the Wars 246Angela Miller
16 Pueblo Painting in 1932: Folding Narratives of Native Art into American Art History 264Jessica L. Horton and Janet Catherine Berlo
17 US American Art in the Americas 281Mary K. Coffey
18 Geography Lessons: Canadian Notes on American Art History 299Frances K. Pohl
19 Only in America: Exceptionalism, Nationalism, Provincialism 317John Davis
20 Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and the Study of American Art 336Jason D. LaFountain
Part III Subjectivities 357
21 Painters and Status in Colony and Early Nation 359Susan Rather
22 Pantaloons vs. Petticoats: Gender and Artistic Identity in Antebellum America 378Sarah Burns
23 Male or Man?: The Politics of Emancipation in the Neoclassical Imaginary 395Charmaine A. Nelson
24 Drawing Boundaries, Crossing Borders: Trespassing and Identity in American Art 414Randall R. Griffey
25 Lookout: On Queer American Art and History 433Richard Meyer
26 From Nature to Ecology: The Emergence of Ecocritical Art History 447Alan C. Braddock
27 Art History as Collage: A Personal Approach 468David M. Lubin
Part IV Art and Public Culture 487
28 Material Religion in Early America 489Louis P. Nelson
29 Issues in Early Mass Visual Culture 507Michael Leja
30 Patrons, Collectors, and Markets 525John Ott
31 Historicism in the American Built Environment 544Kevin D. Murphy
32 The Painting of Urban Life, 1880–1930 562David Peters Corbett
33 Photography and Opium in a Nineteenth-Century Port City 581Anthony W. Lee
34 Value in the Vernacular 599Leo G. Mazow
35 Realism under Duress: The 1930s 617Andrew Hemingway
Index 637