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A Companion to American Art WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY These invigorating reference volumes chart the influence of key ideas, discourses, and theories on art, and the way that it is taught, thought of, and talked about throughout the English‐speaking world. Each volume brings together a team of respected international scholars to debate the state of research within traditional subfields of art history as well as in more innovative, thematic configurations. Representing the best of the scholarship governing the field and pointing toward future trends and across disciplines, the Blackwell Companions to Art History series provides a magisterial, state‐of‐the‐art synthesis of art history. 1 A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 edited by Amelia Jones 2 A Companion to Medieval Art edited by Conrad Rudolph 3 A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture edited by Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton 4 A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art edited by Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow 5 A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present edited by Dana Arnold and David Peters Corbett 6 A Companion to Modern African Art edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà 7 A Companion to Chinese Art edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang 8 A Companion to American Art edited by John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain A Companion to American Art Edited by John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain This edition first published 2015 © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 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Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and authors have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services and neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising herefrom. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data A companion to American art / Edited by John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-470-67102-3 (cloth) 1. Art, American. I. Davis, John, 1961 September 24– editor. II. Greenhill, Jennifer A., 1974– editor. III. LaFountain, Jason David, editor. N6505.C643 2015 709.73–dc23 2014043994 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, oil on canvas, 130.8 × 193 cm, 1836. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908. Acc.no.: 08.228. Image © 2014 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence. Set in 10/12pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2015 This publication is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Contents List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: American Art History Now: A Snapshot 1 John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain Part I Writing American Art History 13 Dialogue 15 1 A Conversation Missed: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Americanist/Modernist Divide 17 Joshua Shannon and Jason Weems 2 Response: Setting the Roundtable, or, Prospects for Dialogue between Americanists and Modernists 34 Jennifer L. Roberts 3 A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History 49 Tanya Sheehan Dialogue 69 4 On the Social History of American Art 71 Alan Wallach 5 Response: Our Cause Is What? 85 Robin Kelsey viii ◼ ◼ ◼ contents 6 The Maker’s Share: Tools for the Study of Process in American Art 95 Ethan W. Lasser Dialogue 111 7 The Problem with Close Looking 113 Martin A. Berger 8 Response: Look Away 128 Jennifer A. Greenhill 9 Looking for Thomas Eakins: The Lure of the Archive and the Object 146 Kathleen A. Foster Dialogue 165 10 The Challenge of Contemporaneity, or, Thoughts on Art as Culture 167 Rachael Z. DeLue 11 Response: Writing History, Reading Art 183 Bryan Wolf Part II Geographies: Rethinking Americanness 191 12 Teaching Across the Borders of North American Art History 193 Wendy Bellion and Mónica Domínguez Torres 13 An American Architecture? 211 Dell Upton 14 The Pacific World and American Art History 228 J.M. Mancini 15 “Home” and “Homeless” in Art between the Wars 246 Angela Miller 16 Pueblo Painting in 1932: Folding Narratives of Native Art into American Art History 264 Jessica L. Horton and Janet Catherine Berlo 17 US American Art in the Americas 281 Mary K. Coffey 18 Geography Lessons: Canadian Notes on American Art History 299 Frances K. Pohl
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