I'm pleased to announce the publication of the summer 2013 issue of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's journal
American Art (volume 27, no. 2).
Since its founding in 1987, American Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars, collectors, and museum-goers who want to enrich their understanding of the nation's art and culture. American Art encompasses all aspects of the country's visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times.
The summer 2013 issue of the journal (volume 27, no. 2) includes essays on the following topics
- The sublime and the banal in postwar photography of the American West
- Old men, politics, and The Saturday Evening Post
- Workers' hands and revolutionary symbolism in 1930s America
The issue also features a set of commentaries on the theme of American art under the conditions of mass media, the topics of which include: seventeenth-century Puritan image theory; an 1852 panoramic painting of the Mississippi River; Ashcan School artist John Sloan's engagement with commercial and popular media; early twentieth-century debates over the role and status of photography; mid twentieth-century photographer Weegee's connections to tabloid culture; and the adoption of "information" as a field of artistic inquiry in the 1970s.
Finally, the issue includes an appreciation of the eight-decade career of American painter, printmaker, and art teacher Will Barnet (1911-2012), whose work engaged in an ongoing dialogue between figuration and abstraction.
For more information on the journal American Art, including how to subscribe or submit a manuscript for publication consideration, please see www.journals.uchicago.edu/amart. Queries may be sent to AmericanArtJournal@si.edu.
Emily D. Shapiro
Executive editor, American Art
Image credit: Russell Lee, The Hands of Mrs. Andrew Ostermeyer, Wife of a Homesteader, Woodbury County, Iowa (detail), 1936. 35mm nitrate negative. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF33-011121-M1
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