{"title":"A Call for Liberty","authors":"S. Gordon","doi":"10.1086/706831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706831","url":null,"abstract":"In 1937, the United States Section of Fine Arts unveiled two murals by Rockwell Kent in the US Post Office Department headquarters in Washington, DC. Depicting the farthest points served by the postal service, the murals were intended by the Section to present a unified vision of the country. But Kent, in collaboration with reporter Ruby A. Black and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, inserted a political statement into one of the paintings encouraging Puerto Ricans to throw off the yoke of US rule. Based on unpublished correspondence between Kent, Black, and Stefansson, I argue that Kent’s message of universal democracy collided with his commitment to cultural nationalism and with the nationalistic nature of Section commissions. The incident resonates with controversies around US government-sponsored art projects that continue to this day.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"39 1","pages":"4 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77664683","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":"Martha Wilson Oral History Interview","authors":"L. Zapol","doi":"10.1086/706843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706843","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"25 1","pages":"110 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83323048","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":"Eduardo Carrillo Papers","authors":"M. Simms","doi":"10.1086/706842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"18 1","pages":"108 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85059343","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":"Is It Okay to See This?","authors":"R. Cozzolino","doi":"10.1086/706835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/706835","url":null,"abstract":"My curatorial intervention for the Archives of American Art Journal presents a range of materials (photographs, letters, journal entries, clippings) I have encountered in my work that have made me stop and ask, “Should I be seeing this? – Is this okay?” These items have prompted me to consider the responsibilities a researcher has regarding discretion. Where does empathy lie in historical writing? How does a curator or art historian activate sensitive material in a way that is sympathetic to their subject? Are these legitimate concerns? Do they get in the way of telling the truth? When is it appropriate to reveal what could be difficult, compromising, expectation turning, or problematic? When is it off limits? Curators and art historians constantly navigate this space.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"19 1","pages":"70 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85501380","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":"Acquisitions Section Opener","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/698347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/698347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74108350","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":"Ilene Segalove Papers","authors":"M. Simms","doi":"10.1086/703667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703667","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"128 1","pages":"94 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88127964","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":"Diagnosing the Archive","authors":"Elizabeth Lee","doi":"10.1086/703662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703662","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the diary of Dr. William Henry Thayer, father of the artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, this essay calls upon scholars to probe archives for signs of health and disease, as a physician might investigate a patient’s body. The presence of this diary in the Thayer Family Papers raises important questions for art historians: What does it mean to understand an artist’s life and work through the lens of illness? Can we examine an artist’s archive for symptoms of disease, as a physician examines the body to diagnose a patient? What might be gained by reading an artist’s personal papers in medical terms? Like a medical subject, archives can often appear incoherent and incomplete, but a critical (one might say clinical) gaze can animate their surfaces and depths, generating new insights and possible futures.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"10 1","pages":"70 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76146648","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":"The Challenge of the Halfalogue","authors":"Erica E. Hirshler","doi":"10.1086/703663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703663","url":null,"abstract":"The Archives of American Art holds a large collection of John Singer Sargent’s letters. Most are notes he sent, not ones he received. As scholars, how are we to address the challenge of this partial conversation, or halfalogue? This essay calls upon researchers to bring all of their interpretive skills, visual and intellectual, to recontextualize such incomplete correspondence. It also asks readers to acknowledge their own artistry and imagination in any attempt to recreate the past, reminding them that a letter is in itself a work of art, composed and colored according to its recipient and moment.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"27 1","pages":"78 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83466224","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":"Lee Hall Papers","authors":"Josh Franco","doi":"10.1086/703664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703664","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"213 1","pages":"88 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89086783","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":"Christine Burgin Gallery Records","authors":"A. Leddy","doi":"10.1086/703666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"28 1","pages":"92 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84460491","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}