American Art Journal
American Art
A journal of the nation's visual heritage
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. Elegant color plates give the journal a distinctive appearance, and the articles are written in an engaging style.
Articles planned in the coming months include the following:
- Turning Points in Technical Art History, a package of commentaries on the intersection of conservation science, curatorial practice, and academic scholarship, with an introductory essay by Joyce Hill Stoner and contributions by Mark Tucker, Leslie Rainer, Helen Ingalls, Rosemary Fallon, and Hugh Shockey
- "All the Things I Didn't Want to Change Anyway": Andy Warhol and the Sociology of Difference, by Edward D. Powers
- Unstable Motives: Propaganda, Politics, and the Late Work of Alexander Calder, by Alex J. Taylor, winner of the 2011 Terra Foundation International Essay Prize
- "Many Stirring Scenes": Henry Darger and American Mass Print Media, by Mary Trent
- "Herrod Lives in This Republic": William Rimmer's Massacre of the Innocents, by Randall Griffey
- Human Agency and the Myth of Divine Salvation in Copley's Watson and the Shark, by Jonathan Clancy
- Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the United States and Latin America, a collection of short essays from the 2011 symposium, with an introduction by Chon Noriega and contributions by E. Carmen Ramos, Deborah Cullen, Valerie Fraser, Ana Franco, and Laura Roulet
- Better for Haunts: Victorian Houses and the Modern Imagination by Sarah Burns
- The Doctor Is In: John Singer Sargent's Dr. Pozzi at Home, by Juliet Bellow
- Civic Primer: Mural Painting's New Education at the Library of Congress, by Annelise K. Madsen
- An Appreciation of June Wayne, by Ruth Weisberg
A one-year subscription for individuals costs $48, and provides full online access to all back issues of American Art. Members of Friends of the Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Associates, American Studies Association, and the College Art Association receive subscriptions at the discounted price of $38. The rate for students is $34. Higher rates apply for institutions.
For information on subscribing, purchasing single issues, or submitting articles to the journal, which is published for the museum by the University of Chicago Press, please visit www.journals.uchicago.edu/AmArt. This link also acts as a portal to the electronic edition of the journal. For information on a new publication prize for foreign scholars, please consult www.americanart.si.edu/research/awards/terra.
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