American ArtPub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1086/715823
L. Siddons
{"title":"Red Power in the Black Panther","authors":"L. Siddons","doi":"10.1086/715823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/715823","url":null,"abstract":"A cover of the Black Panther newspaper depicting American Indian Movement leaders at Wounded Knee features Oglala elder Frank Fools Crow holding a ceremonial pipe in his uplifted fist, a gesture that resembles the Black Panther salute. The 1974 cover layers the iconographic programs of Native and Black social justice movements; it is a graphic statement of intersectional political resistance. Moreover, the paper’s coverage of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation and subsequent trials makes a radical visual argument for the ideological continuity of Red Power and Black Power. This essay proposes that the newspaper’s visual director, Emory Douglas, developed an intersectional liberation aesthetics that transformed the critique of structural oppression into a sustained call for radical revolution. Reporting in the Black Panther consistently addressed “all oppressed people,” a perspective that remains relevant for activists today.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"2 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42803251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713573
Kristina Wilson
{"title":"Add Bates, the 306 Studio, and Interlocking Modernisms in Mid-Twentieth-Century Harlem","authors":"Kristina Wilson","doi":"10.1086/713573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713573","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces the career of Addison “Add” Bates, a furniture maker, dancer, and sometime-gallerist who was active in Harlem art circles from the 1930s through the 1960s. It highlights his connections to painters Jacob Lawrence—who may have painted him in his workshop—and Romare Bearden—for whom he staged the artist’s first solo show; as well as commissions for Richard Wright and a working relationship with Ralph Ellison. His artistic philosophy encompassed formal rigor—a belief in the expressive power of simple, bold forms in compelling composition—and social justice—an abiding commitment to the dignity of the human body and equal opportunity for African American artists. His career demonstrates the centrality of artist networks in supporting and nurturing artistic experimentation and growth, in particular the multimedia connections that sustained African American artists in the twentieth century in the face of institutionalized racism.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"16 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713573","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45958748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713572
J. Van Horn
{"title":"Dancing in the Flames","authors":"J. Van Horn","doi":"10.1086/713572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713572","url":null,"abstract":"This essay investigates a pair of early American andirons that depict identical African figures, each holding a decanter and wine glass. Manufactured by enslaved laborers at an unidentified iron foundry, the andirons depict Black bodies laboring in service. The andirons resemble contemporary representations of enslaved attendants serving White subjects in portraits, as well as woodblock-printed figures that decorated newspaper advertisements for slave auctions. Yet because of their materiality, they complicated the fantasies these visual artifacts proclaim. When considered in their original context of use in an early American parlor, the andirons reveal dis-humanization through spectacularized violence. Produced of iron, these smiling sculptures could be subjected to a fire’s flames without damage. They forged racialized understandings of personhood and supported a view of fireplaces as sites for violence against enslaved people. The andirons reveal that early American refined interiors were not simply zones for performing politeness but also anti-Black.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"9 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713572","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45728049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713577
Elizabeth S. Hawley
{"title":"Tonita Peña and the Politics of Pueblo Art","authors":"Elizabeth S. Hawley","doi":"10.1086/713577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713577","url":null,"abstract":"During the early twentieth century, several artists from Pueblo communities in New Mexico and Hopi in Arizona took up watercolor painting, using the new (to them) medium to produce largely representational scenes of community activities. Cochiti Pueblo artist Tonita Peña was the only woman in this group, necessitating her navigation of gender as well as racial stereotypes. Peña was expected to produce the abstracted imagery seen on Pueblo pottery, a visual style and an art form long coded as women’s work. Using a series of images in which Peña depicts women making Pueblo pottery as an interpretive linchpin, this article argues that these scenes foreground the care Peña took to avoid inappropriate revelations of Pueblo sacred knowledge. Moreover, they evince an epistemological celebration of a practice considered women’s work even as she pictorialized it in a medium and style deemed inappropriate for her gender.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"62 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713577","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43088473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713578
J. Anger
{"title":"Sonja Sekula and “Art of the Mentally Ill”","authors":"J. Anger","doi":"10.1086/713578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713578","url":null,"abstract":"Swiss immigrant Sonja Sekula (1918–1963) enjoyed a brilliant early career at the crux of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in New York circa 1950. Mental illness interrupted that career, and in 1955 she was forced to move “home” to Switzerland for treatment, which was more affordable there than in the United States. Sekula’s exile led to a fatal disjunction between herself and her American artistic community, which never again received her work so sympathetically—and subsequently largely forgot her. In addition to reacquainting us with Sekula’s work, this essay underlines the necessity of supportive community and helps us reconsider the category “art of the mentally ill,” which has heretofore included the work of severely ill patients but not flourishing, if ill, professional artists. Inclusion of the latter humanizes the mentally ill and allows us to contemplate how a wide range of illnesses affects art, artists, and their legacies.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"94 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41715711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713576
P. Aramphongphan
{"title":"An Artist in the Secular World","authors":"P. Aramphongphan","doi":"10.1086/713576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713576","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reassesses Paul Thek’s best known work, the Technological Reliquaries series, commonly referred to as the Meat Pieces (1964–67), which are wax-based mixed-media sculptural works that imitate mutilated flesh in gory, viscous details. While they are generally understood as Thek’s “hot” answer to “cold” Pop and Minimal art, I read them through the lens of a religious visual culture that dislodges the hold of unique, individual authorship and suggests a model of authorship that defers to the sacred chain of meaning through contact. This framework is prompted by Thek’s own account of his struggle to “serve two masters”: religion and secular modern art. In theorizing Thek’s attempt to work through this internal conflict, exacerbated by his queer sexuality, the essay also opens up new avenues of inquiry for thinking about religious faith in modern art.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"40 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42125274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713571
David Brody
{"title":"Design Intervention","authors":"David Brody","doi":"10.1086/713571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713571","url":null,"abstract":"Design can be understood as the planning, shaping, and altering of things, places, and experiences, so the possibilities for its study are boundless. Design is, by its very nature, inclusive. As discussed in this set of Commentaries, design can, and often does, foster discriminatory practices. Yet what is thought of as design, and its commercial connections, provides a broader sense of history, because it touches so many lives. It is the implicit intellectual intent of the four short essays in this special section that studying design permits a deeper understanding of the ways in which material and visual culture reflect, constitute, and construct the larger American experience. The articles in this issue do not encapsulate the entirety of American design history. However, these authors do provide a speculative window into the debates, ideas, and pedagogical conversations that are changing the field of art history.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"2 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43892024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713575
J. Quick
{"title":"Designing Polaroid","authors":"J. Quick","doi":"10.1086/713575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713575","url":null,"abstract":"While primarily known as a photographer of sweeping American landscapes, Ansel Adams also served as a corporate consultant, most notably for the electronics company Polaroid. During the course of his thirty-five-year-long consultancy, Adams tested every major Polaroid film and camera. This article argues that Adams’s consultancy was a form of design work, focused as he was on the usability and functionality of Polaroid prototypes, as well as the aesthetics of the test prints he produced. Occupying the roles of designer and user, Adams found that communicating effectively with engineers and scientists was far from straightforward, as he grappled with the problem of translating his experience with the prototypes into usable feedback that could be put into practice in Polaroid’s laboratories and eventually its factories. Adams’s consultancy, which functioned as a laboratory for examining his own aesthetic practice, also illuminates broader historical transitions in the relationship between artists and corporations in postwar American society.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"31 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45153161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1086/713574
Rhoda Eitel-Porter
{"title":"Driving the American Dream","authors":"Rhoda Eitel-Porter","doi":"10.1086/713574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/713574","url":null,"abstract":"One Sunday in fall 1953, Robert Rauschenberg placed a ream of paper on the road outside his studio in New York. He poured paint in front of a wheel of the Model A Ford belonging to his friend, the composer John Cage, and asked him to drive the car over the paper. The resulting Automobile Tire Print remains a remarkable work of art, which simultaneously questions the agency of the artist and the process of mark-making. It has been variously interpreted in the contexts of performance and conceptual art, printmaking, and semiotics. This article highlights the hitherto overlooked significance of the Model A for Rauschenberg. Parallels are drawn to Profile Airflow of 1969 by Claes Oldenburg, a relief multiple modeled on the Chrysler Airflow. In the course of exploring conditions of artistic collaboration and printmaking, both Rauschenberg and Oldenburg also activate icons of American car design.","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"35 1","pages":"24 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/713574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42841262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American ArtPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1086/712754
Hong Kong, W. Chan
{"title":"About the Authors","authors":"Hong Kong, W. Chan","doi":"10.1086/712754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/712754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43434,"journal":{"name":"American Art","volume":"34 1","pages":"Inside back cover - Inside back cover"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/712754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43833820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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