Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce publication of the Spring 2015 issue of American Art, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Commentaries
Martin A. Berger, “Photography, History, and the Historian”
Alan Trachtenberg, “Photography and Social Knowledge”
Sally Stein, “Toward a Full-Color Turn in the Optics of Modern History”
Miles Orvell, “America in Ruins: Photography as Cultural Narrative”
Shawn Michelle Smith, “The Afterimages of Emmett Till”

Feature Articles
Lauren Kroiz, “’A Jolly Lark for Amateurs’: John Steuart Curry’s Pedagogy of Painting”
Jessica L. Horton, “A Cloudburst in Venice: Fred Kabotie and the U.S. Pavilion of 1932”
Charlotte Ickes, “The Sartorial and the Skin: Portraits of Pocahontas and Allegories of English Empire”

New Perspective

Edward W. Wolner, “George Bellows, Georg Simmel, and Modernizing New York”


For more information on American Art, including how to subscribe or submit a manuscript for publication consideration, please see: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/amart.html. Queries may be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.


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