{"title":"Being There: The Singularity of Oral History","authors":"Avis Berman","doi":"10.1086/727630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727630","url":null,"abstract":"Oral histories are sought by institutions and individuals for their power and unique qualities as a research tool. Informed interviewers elicit personal experiences that offer special insights into what it was like to witness critical events or observe a personality. Oral history also captures the character and poetry of unmediated speech: vocal tones and rhythms carry nuances and emphases that vanish on the printed page. Despite these advantages, the besetting problem of oral history is its resistance to verification. Its evidence is suspect until corroborated by other sources. Oral histories are not substitutes for contemporaneous writings and records—they are supplements. Conducting oral histories can become a tremendously emotional situation when interviewers become deeply entwined with their subjects; they forge strong personal connections, a natural byproduct of the intense focus required for a successful interview. Ultimately, an oral history is a record that two people create.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135688104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elyse and Stanley Grinstein Papers","authors":"Matthew Simms","doi":"10.1086/727633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135688111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"About the Archives of American Art","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/725117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135238832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Henryk Stażewski’s Art in America","authors":"Marta Zboralska","doi":"10.1086/725119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725119","url":null,"abstract":"This article probes the validity of the center-periphery relation as a model for studying postwar artistic exchange within the idiom of geometric abstraction. Focusing on Polish artist Henryk Stażewski’s later work, the essay reflects on the complex temporal relationship between the avant-garde and the neo avant-garde in the context of transnationalism, exploring the potential of viewing US art through the eyes of a non-American artist.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"35 1","pages":"4 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88543208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Family Collection Records","authors":"Josh Franco","doi":"10.1086/725124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"13 1","pages":"90 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89044671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hisako Hibi and Matsusaburo “George” Hibi Papers","authors":"M. Simms","doi":"10.1086/725127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"5 1","pages":"93 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79140530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Side by Side: Intermediality in Senga Nengudi’s Collaborations","authors":"M. Majewska","doi":"10.1086/725120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725120","url":null,"abstract":"While Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger’s collaborations have garnered considerable scholarship and are reflected in recent exhibitions and publications on their respective practices, the wider collaborative structure of their work and artistic development has yet to be fully explored. This essay considers the fruitful relationships between Nengudi, Hassinger, Cheryl Banks, David Hammons, Franklin Parker, and Ulysses Jenkins, positing collaboration as a vital strategy for fostering a distinctly intermedia art. By probing archival material including the photographic documentation of group performances, individual statements, and correspondence, the analysis demonstrates how members of this Los Angeles-based artistic circle helped one another understand media categories in ways that defied the hegemony of Western modernism. It also seeks to establish the artists’ shared view of photographic documentation as a collaborative experience and a means of visualizing the process of pushing the limits of one medium with another.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"10 1","pages":"20 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76974186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Note","authors":"Tanya Sheehan","doi":"10.1086/725118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725118","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article FreeEditor’s NoteTanya SheehanTanya Sheehan Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreIt is with deep gratitude that I acknowledge this as the final issue of the journal overseen by Liza Kirwin, interim director of the Archives of American Art from 2020 to 2023. It was Liza, as deputy director, who led a comprehensive review of the journal’s operations resulting in its relaunch as a peer-reviewed publication distributed by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. When she hired me as executive editor that year, Liza challenged me to prioritize innovative thinking about primary sources in selecting research articles and reach a broader audience than ever before, while providing her unwavering support and excitement for the work. In every issue we produced together, managing editor Emily D. Shapiro and I relied on Liza’s deep knowledge of the Archives’ collections and the artworld figures represented in them, built over a remarkable forty-three-year career at the institution. Liza’s wisdom, however, extends far beyond the facts of American art. She possesses a unique combination of critical acumen, generosity of spirit, and sensitivity to the human relations at the heart of any collection. Emily and I dedicate this issue to her.“New Research” opens with efforts to think about American art history as a network of relations. Engaging material in the Archives related to Polish-born painter Henryk Stażewski, Marta Zboralska asks how we can better understand American art through a non-American’s work. Martyna Ewa Majewska underscores the collaborative structure of art-making and artistic development through her exploration of the relationships among Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, and other Los Angeles-based artists in the late twentieth century. Majewska’s essay also reflects on the roles of medium and intermediality in defining American modernism. Writing about holographic art in the 1960s and 1970s, Elizabeth Johnson shares this interest in how medium can serve as a critical tool with aesthetic and political implications.In this issue we debut “Out of the Box,” which invites responses to a single collection at the Archives. In collaboration with Amelia Groom, who introduces the feature here and edited it with me, we asked seven contributors to each select and meditate on one object from the Beverly Buchanan Papers—a recent acquisition that poses timely questions about environmental and racial justice.Similar questions are explored by Ken Gonzales-Day, whose commissioned artwork redraws the flora and fauna in artistic depictions of lynching found in the records of a 1935 antilynching exhibition. As Shawn Michelle Smith observes in her introduction to the work, Gonzales-Day shows how the natural landscape served as unwilling witness to racial violence. Previous articleNext articl","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135238831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Four Walls Records","authors":"J. Proctor","doi":"10.1086/725126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"376 1","pages":"91 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76317709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}