Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce publication of the Fall 2014 issue of American Art, the peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Commentaries

Alan C. Braddock and Renée Ater, “Art in the Anthropocene”

Robin Kelsey, “Ecology, Sustainability, and Historical Interpretation”

Emily Eliza Scott, “Feeling in the Dark: Ecology at the Edges of History”

Kinshasha Holman Conwill, “To Reap the Harvest Wonderful: On Sustainability at the National Museum of African

               American History and Culture”

Feature Articles
Tanya Sheehan, “Confronting Taboo: Photography and the Art of Jacob Lawrence”

Jerome Tharaud, “Evangelical Space: The Oxbow, Religious Print, and the Moral Landscape in America”

Lauren Lessing, “Theatrical Mayhem in Junius Brutus Stearns’s Hannah Duston Killing the Indians”

New Perspective

Edyta Frelik, “Ad Reinhardt: Painter-as-Writer”

**Winner of the 2013 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize**

 

Appreciation

Sarah Burns, “Cynthia J. Mills, 1946-2014”

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