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American Modernism (PART 9) American Modernism (PART 9) CALL FOR REVIEWS FOR PART 9: AMERICAN MODERNISM PART: The Online Journal of Art History and Visual Culture, sponsored by the students in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, is interested in reviews of books and / or exhibitions for its upcoming issue on American modernism. If you are interested in submitting a book / exhibition review, please let the supervising editors for PART know of your interest. If you do not already have a copy of the book, the editors will do what they can to obtain a copy for you. Deadline for submission of reviews: April 15, 2002. For inquiries and questions, contact: Kate Bussard [email protected] Allison Moore [email protected] Dan Quiles [email protected] Among the many recent books that could be reviewed are the following, which constitutes a certainly incomplete list: Alejandro Anreus. Ben Shahn and the Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0813529441 Debra Bricker Balken, et al. Arthur Dove: A Retrospective. Boston: M.I.T. Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262522403 Marcia Brennan. Painting Theory, Constructing Gender: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 2001. ISBN: 0262024888 John Cauman. Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2001. Whitney Chadwick, et al. Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 0520225678 Wanda Corn. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520210492 Celeste Connor. Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle. 1/3 ArtHist.net Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520213548 James M. Dennis. Renegade Regionalists : The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN: 0299155846 Erika Doss. Twentieth Century American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0192842390 [due to be published in April 2002, may not yet be available] Douglas Dreishpoon and Mary Abell. Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Reality. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2002.ISBN: 1555952143 [due to be published in April 2002, may not yet be available] Stacey M. Epstein. Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. William H. Gerdts. The Color of Modernism: The American Fauves. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1997. Sarah Greenough, ed. Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, 2000. ISBN: 0821227289 Patricia Hills, ed. Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies in the 20th Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2000. ISBN: 0130361380 Bruce Kellner, ed. The Letters of Charles Demuth: American Artist, 1883-1935. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. ISBN: 1566397812 Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O''Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0300081766 Miranda McClintic. Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. New York: Watson Guptill Publications, 2001. ISBN: 0823031233 Patricia McDonnell. Concerning Expressionism: American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2001. Peter T. Nesbett, ed. Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. ISBN: 0295979658 Bernard P. Perlman. The Lives, Loves and Art of Arthur B. Davies. Stonybrook, NY: State Univeristy of New York Press, 1998. ISBN: 079143835X Will South, et al. Color, Myth, and Magic: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001. ISBN: 2/3 ArtHist.net 0882599860 Reference: CFP: American Modernism (PART 9). In: ArtHist.net, Mar 26, 2002 (accessed Oct 4, 2021), <https://arthist.net/archive/24911>. 3/3.
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