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The Association of Historians of American Art, along with its e-journal Panorama, provides a scholarly forum for the study of American art and culture.
A pleasure as always to be with my #Americanist bffs for another #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover. Dare I say it’s the end of an… #Era? 🐍 But don’t worry; we’ll see you again with a brand-new issue in June. Happy holidays to all! —@jsrouthier.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 PM
#RealTalk for a minute as we close out our #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover. Everything we do, everything we have posted about these past 2-3 weeks, takes funding. #OpenAccess is free to readers but not to us! We are lucky to have amazing grant support, but we also depend on reader support. 1/2
December 6, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Be honest: you’ve been fully inspired by the #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover this fall. WELL, did you know that we have a current posting for an Executive Editor? And that we’re basically always filling editorial positions this time of year? Click, apply and let us know if you have Qs! bit.ly/3B5qCeJ
Call for Nominations: Co-Executive Editor - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:45 PM
As we finish up yet another triumphant #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover, we’re taking a look back—to AHAA’s 8th Biennial Symposium in Birmingham AL in October—and forward to the future of #AmericanArt History. Taylor Rose Payer, a doctoral candidate at U of MN, has the writeup. bit.ly/3DbwkvX 1/5
AHAA Recap: What Does the Future Hold for American Art History? - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 6, 2024 at 2:28 PM
First snow today here in Portland, ME, has me dreaming of the Arctic. Perhaps Elizabeth Cronin’s The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History, reviewed by Katherine Manthorne in the new #JournalPanorama, is perfect for someone on your holiday shopping list? bit.ly/4go6MKn #AHAATakeover #BookReviews 1/5
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Did Thanksgiving dinner remind you of that special someone it’s always a bit difficult to shop for? Never fear: Richard Brookhiser’s Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, reviewed by Paul Staiti, is sure to please. bit.ly/4goGXKx
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Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Up next today in #BookReviews is Tatiana Reinoza’s “Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory” (University of Texas Press), reviewed by Mary K. Coffey. bit.ly/4f3gDUX #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/5
Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 5, 2024 at 4:48 PM
How’s that holiday shopping going, #Americanists? #JournalPanorama is here to help on the penultimate day of our #AHAATakeover. Let #BookReviews be your guide, beginning with Embroidering the Landscape by Andrea Pappas (Lund Humphries), reviewed by Elizabeth Bacon Eager. bit.ly/4gll3b2 1/4
Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:17 PM
We wrap up our coverage of #ExhibitionReviews in today’s #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover with Sargent Claude Johnson at the Huntington, reviewed by Christine Garnier. It is the first exhibition to focus on this #AfricanAmerican #modernist sculptor in more than 25 years. bit.ly/49k4cmo 1/5
Sargent Claude Johnson - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:17 PM
There’s been a LOT of female energy during this week’s #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover, so let’s just go with that! Anne Strachan Cross reviews Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums at the Boston Athenaeum earlier this year. bit.ly/3ZBkcxd #AmericanArt #BlackHistory #WomenHistorians 1/4
Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:56 PM
The Janet Sobel celebration continues today with Sandra Zalman's review of the exhibit at the Menil Collection. It’s a great opportunity to share this review alongside a Research Note by the curator, Natalie Dupêcher, featured in posts earlier today. bit.ly/3VgJrlJ #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/5
Janet Sobel: All Over - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 3, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Janet Sobol began painting as a so-called primitive with works like Spring Festival (1942). “Look closely,” writes Natalie Dupêcher in the new #JournalPanorama: “the compositional elements are carefully fitted together, almost slotted into place like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.” #AHAATakeover 1/4
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
As our #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover keeps its focus on underrecognized #WomenArtists, today is all about the groundbreaking midcentury painter Janet Sobel, beginning with a research note by Natalie Dupêcher, curator of “Janet Sobel: All-Over” at the Menil Collection. bit.ly/49ilm3M 1/5
Janet Sobel’s All Over, Everywhere - Panorama
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December 3, 2024 at 3:12 PM
As we continue to mine the new #JournalPanorama today and tomorrow for underrecognized #womenartists, we turn to Dorothy Liebes, whose exhibition at Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum is reviewed in its digital form by Annalisa Coats Sato. bit.ly/3ZbqG4u #AHAATakeover #DigitalDialogues 1/4
Closer to Mainstream: Dorothy Liebes Goes Digital - Panorama
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December 2, 2024 at 9:06 PM
In the new #JournalPanorama, Annelise K. Madsen of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social offers seven key lessons she has learned in researching and advocating for underrecognized #womenartists like Ellen Emmet Rand. bit.ly/4eV3qxt #AHAATakeover 1/8
December 2, 2024 at 6:43 PM
As we begin week 2 (or 3?) of our #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover, we’re looking at underrecognized #womenartists. Annelise K. Madsen of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social shares some findings about painter Ellen Emmett Rand but also about researching women artists in general. bit.ly/4eV3qxt 1/4
In the Aggregate: Women Artists, Museum Work, and the Paths We Tread - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
19th-century American landscapes convey a sense of abundance: fertile territory spread before the viewer like a feast. Erin Pauwels writes about how Kay WalkingStick troubles that view in American Artists x American Symbols. bit.ly/4eLDX9z #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/3
Kay WalkingStick’s Layered Landscapes and Critical Stewardship in American Art History - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Frederick Douglass famously said “What to the slave is the 4th of July?” It’s a useful meditation for the eve of Thanksgiving too. Read Dina Murokh on Isaac Julien on Douglass in American Artists x American Symbols: bit.ly/49c1jnV #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/4
Douglass’s Pictures, Julien’s Lessons - Panorama
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November 27, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Like Ben Shahn in the 1930s and 50s, Norman Parish riffs on the Statue of Liberty in his monumental painting of 1969/70—but also another American icon, Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic. @mlobelart.bsky.social has the story in the new #JournalPanorama bit.ly/3CP5FoQ #AHAATakeover 1/3
Norman Parish’s Historical Gyrations - Panorama
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November 27, 2024 at 4:55 PM
“How free is free?” asks a 1952 issue of The Nation, featuring a cover illustration by Ben Shahn of the Statue of Liberty. Shahn also included the statue in a 1930s mural that was openly critical of US policy. Frances K. Pohl has the story. bit.ly/4i4a9b7 #JournalPanorama #AmericanArt 1/3
How Free is Free? Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art - Panorama
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November 27, 2024 at 3:10 PM
The materiality of American symbols in art has been our subject today, and you can’t be more on the nose than a stuffed bald eagle. Jonathan F. Walz deconstructs Robert Rauschenberg’s notorious “Canyon” in American Artists x American symbols. bit.ly/3AXwYN6 #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/3
Canyon: Robert Rauschenberg’s Declaration of Independence - Panorama
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November 26, 2024 at 9:07 PM
What makes fabric such an appealing arena for social and political critique? Charlotte Hecht and M Stang write about the unique power of Marie Watt’s sewing circles in American Artists x American Symbols in the new #JournalPanorama. bit.ly/4g4C88V #AHAATakeover 1/3
Teaching and/as/in Marie Watt’s Sewing Circles - Panorama
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November 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
We’re already talking about flags and fabric today—so let’s throw the fat into the fire and see what happens. Adria Gunter writes about Kiyan Williams’s fried American flags as part of American Artists x American Symbols in the current #JournalPanorama. bit.ly/414QHFb #AHAATakeover 1/3
Red, Fried, and Blue: Kiyan Williams Remakes the Flag - Panorama
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November 26, 2024 at 4:46 PM
This week, as we prep for Thanksgiving while anticipating a 2nd Trump term, we look at “how artists have embraced, critiqued, and/or reformulated iconic American symbols in their practices over time.” Edited by Katherine Jentleson. #JournalPanorama bit.ly/4fJJMFY #AHAATakeover 1/4
American Artists x American Symbols - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
“The eerie, faceless solitary shadow figures” on the back of Flickr’s A Generated Family of Man Helen Lewandowski writes in #JournalPanorama, is “one of the many unsettlingly inhuman results that were generated from typing ‘human’ into Image Generator.” #AHAATakeover #AI bit.ly/3CKVCB9 1/3
November 25, 2024 at 8:55 PM