A Companion to American Art

<p>List of Figures xi</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors xvii</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xxiii</p>
<p>Introduction: American Art History Now: A Snapshot 1<br />John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain</p>
<p>Part I Writing American Art History 13</p>
<p>Dialogue 15</p>
<p>1 A Conversation Missed: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Americanist/Modernist Divide 17<br />Joshua Shannon and Jason Weems</p>
<p>2 Response: Setting the Roundtable, or, Prospects for Dialogue between Americanists and Modernists 34<br />Jennifer L. Roberts</p>
<p>3 A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History 49<br />Tanya Sheehan</p>
<p>Dialogue 69</p>
<p>4 On the Social History of American Art 71<br />Alan Wallach</p>
<p>5 Response: Our Cause Is What? 85<br />Robin Kelsey</p>
<p>6 The Maker s Share: Tools for the Study of Process in American Art 95<br />Ethan W. Lasser</p>
<p>Dialogue 111</p>
<p>7 The Problem with Close Looking 113<br />Martin A. Berger</p>
<p>8 Response: Look Away 128<br />Jennifer A. Greenhill</p>
<p>9 Looking for Thomas Eakins: The Lure of the Archive and the Object 146<br />Kathleen A. Foster</p>
<p>Dialogue 165</p>
<p>10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture 167<br />Rachael Z. DeLue</p>
<p>11 Response: Writing History, Reading Art 183<br />Bryan Wolf</p>
<p>Part II Geographies: Rethinking Americanness 191</p>
<p>12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History 193<br />Wendy Bellion and M&oacute;nica Dom&iacute;nguez Torres</p>
<p>13 An American Architecture? 211<br />Dell Upton</p>
<p>14 The Pacific World and American Art History 228<br />J.M. Mancini</p>
<p>15 Home and Homeless in Art between the Wars 246<br />Angela Miller</p>
<p>16 Pueblo Painting in 1932: Folding Narratives of Native Art into American Art History 264<br />Jessica L. Horton and Janet Catherine Berlo</p>
<p>17 US American Art in the Americas 281<br />Mary K. Coffey</p>
<p>18 Geography Lessons: Canadian Notes on American Art History 299<br />Frances K. Pohl</p>
<p>19 Only in America: Exceptionalism, Nationalism, Provincialism 317<br />John Davis</p>
<p>20 Monolingualism, Multilingualism, and the Study of American Art 336<br />Jason D. LaFountain</p>
<p>Part III Subjectivities 357</p>
<p>21 Painters and Status in Colony and Early Nation 359<br />Susan Rather</p>
<p>22 Pantaloons vs. Petticoats: Gender and Artistic Identity in Antebellum America 378<br />Sarah Burns</p>
<p>23 Male or Man?: The Politics of Emancipation in the Neoclassical Imaginary 395<br />Charmaine A. Nelson</p>
<p>24 Drawing Boundaries, Crossing Borders: Trespassing and Identity in American Art 414<br />Randall R. Griffey</p>
<p>25 Lookout: On Queer American Art and History 433<br />Richard Meyer</p>
<p>26 From Nature to Ecology: The Emergence of Ecocritical Art History 447<br />Alan C. Braddock</p>
<p>27 Art History as Collage: A Personal Approach 468<br />David M. Lubin</p>
<p>Part IV Art and Public Culture 487</p>
<p>28 Material Religion in Early America 489<br />Louis P. Nelson</p>
<p>29 Issues in Early Mass Visual Culture 507<br />Michael Leja</p>
<p>30 Patrons, Collectors, and Markets 525<br />John Ott</p>
<p>31 Historicism in the American Built Environment 544<br />Kevin D. Murphy</p>
<p>32 The Painting of Urban Life, 1880 1930 562<br />David Peters Corbett</p>
<p>33 Photography and Opium in a Nineteenth–Century Port City 581<br />Anthony W. Lee</p>
<p>34 Value in the Vernacular 599<br />Leo G. Mazow</p>
<p>35 Realism under Duress: The 1930s 617<br />Andrew Hemingway</p>
<p>Index 637</p>