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Issue 5 • Winter 2021 5 winter 2021 Journal of the school of arts and humanities and the edith o'donnell institute of art history at the university of texas at dallas Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 185 11/6/20 1:24 PM 2 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 2 11/6/20 1:23 PM 1 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 1 11/6/20 1:23 PM This issue of Athenaeum Review is made possible by a generous gift from Karen and Howard Weiner in memory of Richard R. Brettell. 2 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 2 11/6/20 1:23 PM Athenaeum Review Athenaeum Review publishes essays, reviews, Issue 5 and interviews by leading scholars in the arts and Winter 2021 humanities. Devoting serious critical attention to the arts in Dallas and Fort Worth, we also consider books and ideas of national and international significance. Editorial Board Nils Roemer, Interim Dean of the School of Athenaeum Review is a publication of the School of Arts Arts and Humanities, Director of the Ackerman and Humanities and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Center for Holocaust Studies and Stan and Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies School of Arts and Humanities Dennis M. Kratz, Senior Associate Provost, Founding The University of Texas at Dallas Director of the Center for Asian Studies, and Ignacy 800 West Campbell Rd. JO 31 and Celia Rockover Professor of the Humanities Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Michael Thomas, Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and Edith O’Donnell [email protected] Distinguished University Chair in Art History athenaeumreview.org Richard R. Brettell †, Founding Director of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, ISSN: 2578-5168 (Print) Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair of Art E-ISSN: 2578-5176 (Online) History and Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies Front Cover: taylor barnes, Emerge/Imagine, 2020, Matthew J. Brown, Director of the Center for Charcoal and sewing on cloth, 29.5 x 23 inches. Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology and Courtesy of the Artist and Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas. Professor of Philosophy and History of Ideas Private collection of Charmel Maynard, Miami. Magdalena G. Grohman, Associate Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology All contents copyright © 2020 by the respective and Lecturer, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences authors and other rights holders. All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be reproduced in any Ming Dong Gu, Associate Director of the form without the publisher’s permission. 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Cecil Professor for Foreign Languages Editor Benjamin Lima Creative Director Cassini Nazir Page Layout Katrina Saunders Copy Editor Jonathan Hartmann Business Manager Zakiya Bryant 3 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 3 11/6/20 1:23 PM Art Worlds Literary Lives 10 What We Talk About 60 A Silent Fool When We Talk About Cordelia’s Subversive Leonardo Silence in King Lear Mark Rosen Andy Amato 19 A Weird, Unique 72 In Praise of Ozsváth and Lushness Turner’s Poetry of Review of El Greco: Ambition Translation and Defiances Review of The Golden Goblet: Brian Allen Selected Poems by Goethe Mark Olival-Bartley 36 American Modernists Contemplating Asia 81 Please, Mr. Judge Man Reviewing the Journey of Resisting Apartheid With Mark Tobey and Isamu Song and Dance Noguchi Thomas Riccio Weiyi Wu 50 A Way of Knowing: Nishiki Sugawara-Beda Robert Gordon 56 Opening Our Eyes to See Elizabeth M. Molacek 4 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 4 11/6/20 1:23 PM Folio Sciences and Arts Current Affairs 93 Poetry by Nomi Stone, 109 The Ancient and Future 142 The Cost of Discipleship Tom Palaima and Jane Art of Terraforming Weber’s Charisma and the Saginaw Frederick Turner Profession of the Humanities 102 Works of art by Evita 119 Coins, Trinkets, Bits and Ashley C. Barnes Tezeno, Jammie Holmes, Bobs Desireé Vaniecia, Sedrick Review of Crystal B. Lake, 148 Classicism by Decree Huckaby, Letitia Huckaby, Artifacts Julia Friedman and Riley Holloway Lydia Pyne 156 Will Laughing at and with 123 Voyaging with Charles One Another Save Us? Darwin on the Beagle Review of Jeffrey Israel, Living Amit Majmudar with Hate in American Politics and Religion 131 From Laboratory to David A. Gerber Museum Displaying Scientific 164 Dealing with Discovery With a Lab Disappointment in Notebook Democracy Elizabeth M. Molacek and Michael Fischer Aaron M. Fond 5 Athenaeum Review_Issue 5_FINAL_11.04.2020.indd 5 11/6/20 1:23 PM Contributors David A. Gerber is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and Senior Fellow in History at the University Brian Allen is an art historian living in Arlington, at Buffalo (SUNY), where he continues to teach a seminar Vermont. He was the curator of American art at the on the First Amendment. As an historian of the United Clark Art Institute and director of the Addison Gallery, States, he has had a longtime interest in American Phillips Academy and the museum division of the immigration law and policy, the experience of European New-York Historical Society. He received his BA from immigration to the United States, and American ethnic Wesleyan University, his MA from Williams College, and identities. His published work includes American his PhD from Yale University. He writes art criticism for Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (2011), a CNN many journals. “Book of the Week” in June 2018, which will be brought out in an updated edition in 2021. In recent years, he has Andy Amato is a philosopher, artist, and writer who also written on disability and on the First Amendment, teaches at the University of Texas at Dallas. He specializes subjects brought together in Disability Rights and in 19th & 20th century continental philosophy, ethics, Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. and aesthetics. His first book, The Ethical Imagination Catalina Foothills School District (2020), coauthored with in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Bloomsbury 2019), reads Bruce Dierenfield. Active in public history projects, he Shakespeare through the hermeneutic lens of Heidegger. serves on the History Advisory Committee of the Statue He is currently working on a companion piece, The of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation. www.dagerber.com Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare, Emerson, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. He also paints and writes art criticism. Robert Edward Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona, where Ashley C. Barnes teaches literature at the University he facilitates interdisciplinary relationships throughout of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of Love and Depth the university. He is a Fellow at the UA Center for in the American Novel from Stowe to James (University Buddhist Studies and is affiliated faculty with the Center of Virginia Press), and her essays have appeared or will for the Philosophy of Freedom. Trained as a philosopher appear in J19, Arizona Quarterly, The Henry James Review, and an art historian, his work encompasses a broad and online at Avidly. range of interests: the canon of art and music, Eastern Michael Fischer is the Janet S. Dicke Professor in Public art and philosophy, art and economics, and humanistic Humanities at Trinity University. His research currently geography. With an emphasis on the epistemologies focuses on how the humanities can help address of contemporary life, his writings investigate how challenges to democracy. the meanings and ideas embedded in physical objects (artworks, architecture, nature) are experienced Aaron Fond is a physician fellow in gastroenterology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he within the subjectivity of the individual. He has taught works as both a clinician and researcher. His research art history and philosophy at various colleges and interests include how innate immunology plays a role in universities over the last ten years. His work can be found the GI tract. Aaron has a B.S. from Rice University and a in The Wall Street Journal, Space and Culture, Catholic M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Virginia, where Arts Today, the Japanese American National Museum’s his research focused on cell signaling in immune cells Traveling Exhibition, among others. and was supported by the National Institutes of Health Figurative painter Riley Holloway currently works out of (NIH). From now on, he plans to take copious notes so Dallas. He attended The Art Institute of Dallas and the that his lab notebooks are fit for museum display—just Florence Academy of Art, after which he was awarded in case. an artist residency at The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. Holloway is best known for his dynamic work and fresh Julia Friedman is an art historian, critic, and curator based in Los Angeles. She began her art historical studies at look at figurative art. His images are often accompanied the Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, where she by text and other personal references embedded within grew up. In 2005 she received a Ph.D. in Art History from the work.