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Grid of 9 images representing past social media posts

Grid of 9 images representing past social media posts

Grid of 9 images representing past social media posts

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

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#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

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...

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

“All of this,” Payer writes, “was offered in service of our work in American art; work that as Renée Ater reminded us must ‘be relevant to the communities we are teaching and living in’ during a Saturday afternoon panel.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

There were also broader conversations related to the American survey course and the study of American sculpture, as well as visits to the Joe Minter exhibition at the Marc Steel Warehouse and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at UAlabama at Birmingham. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

Following a keynote by #JournalPanorama’s editors (you’re welcome), attendees enjoyed sessions on “Meaning, Materials, and Materiality,” “Home/Place,” “Imagined American Wests,” “Transnational and Transcultural Connections,” and “The Detritus of American Art.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

A highlight was a tour of Joe Minter’s African Village in America. “An immersion into a cacophony of improvised sculptures that pay homage to African Diasporic history and the Civil Rights Movement…was a fitting preamble” for all that followed, Payer writes. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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...

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

Finally, Manthorne observes, the catalogue deals powerfully with “Indigeneity and the legacy of colonialism,” particularly in the work of contemporary Arctic artists: Kiliii Yüyan, Julie Edel Hardenber, Minik Bidstrup, Inuuteq Storch, & Outi Pieski, among others. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

Another theme, Manthorne writes, is “the surprising degree of diversity among the explorers in the region,” including “women, representatives of many Euro-American nations, men of color such as Matthew Henson, and Indigenous people.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

Manthorne identifies three key themes that “ cut across a half-millennium of visual history,” including the “directed gaze,” a deep cross-cultural attention to the importance of looking, observing and recording moments of contact, conditions, and change. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

Awe of the Arctic accompanied a show of the same name at @nypl.bsky.social in early 2024 but stands on its own as “a pictorial record of the Polar North created over the past five hundred years.” It includes 15 “short, smart essays” from scholars in various fields. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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...

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

Brookhiser’s strength is conveying that Trumbull’s great paintings of the Declaration and Washington’s resignation set forth “an epic hypothesis regarding civilian self-government and that they then prove the feasibility of that hypothesis.” Fingers crossed, Dad. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

Staiti says “Brookhiser’s art talk is fair but incomplete,” acknowledging both that “it is important to remember that Brookhiser is not writing for professional art historians” and that nevertheless some masterworks “[need] richer treatment for any audience.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

The history is “solid and succinct,” writes Staiti, though dependent on Trumbull’s own autobiography. The result is that he "endorses the mythic figure at the same time that he recognizes the problem with the mythic tendencies in Trumbull’s narrative of himself.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

Brookhiser is a senior editor at the National Review and a frequent biographer of founding-father types; this is his first attempt at art history. Accordingly, Staiti observes, he focuses more on Trumbull’s life than his art. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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...

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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The book’s cover, a wrenching serigraph by Sandra C. Fernández, for instance, calls out the “monoethnic imaginary of white nationalism” in the US that “fuels the criminalization of unaccompanied minors navigating the gauntlet of cross-border migration.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

The book’s focus is not terminology, however, but how collecting printmaking activities within these communities have worked to reclaim or “reterritorialize” the Americas by centering the body “as a site of knowledge, violence, racialization, and resistance.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

…Instead, Reinoza uses “Latinx” to bring “much-needed attention to artists of diverse national origins, racial positions, and class experiences, who have been constituted as ‘forever foreign’ within the Anglo-dominant imaginary of US nationalism.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

The term Latinx is a controversial one in today’s discourse, as both Reinoza and Coffey acknowledge. “Like [cultural anthropologist Arlene] Dávila,” Coffey writes, “Reinoza refuses to define ‘Latinx’ in positivist, universalizing, or transhistorical terms...” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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...

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

In 200 “beautifully illustrated pages,” Pappas “unpacks the compositional conventions that make such landscapes intelligible alongside the broader landscapes of trade, agriculture, and husbandry from which these embroidered scenes originally emerged.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/4

“The disorienting composition and disjunctive scalar shifts” of colonial #needlework, Eager writes “are commonly treated as signs of the embroiderer’s naiveté, evidence of the untrained eye & amateur hand wielded by young women in the production of domestic craft.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/4

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...

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

“These multisensory embellishments of touch and sound allowed for Johnson’s work to connect to modernist discourses beyond the visual,” Garnier writes, “and to fully engage a variety of audiences, both past and present.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

Original Louis Braille carving by Sargent Claude Johnson and replica for visitor engagement, with braille didactics below. Installed in the gallery “California School for the Blind Commission,” in Sargent Claude Johnson. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Photo by Christine Garnier Dark gray wall hung with two lunette-shaped wood carvings, one above the other, depicting a group of people around a table. The lower carving is larger. Between them hangs a yellow-orange sign that reads "Please Touch."

Another touchable moment comes with a larger-than-life carved replica of Johnson’s “Louis Braille” relief, created as an organ screen for the California School for the Blind. It’s accompanied by recorded organ music and a text in the language Braille invented. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

View of “Material Experiments” installation, looking into the “Artist of the Black Renaissance” gallery, in Sargent Claude Johnson. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Photo by Christine Garnier Interior of a museum gallery showing a case with seven small sculptural objects within. Beyond the case a yellow wall reads "Material Experiments" with an illegible text block below.

Garnier describes as “successful interventions” groupings of children’s portrait heads representing Johnson’s “multiracial yet segregated neighborhood in Berkeley” and small sculptures in an array of “materials from across the Americas,” with touchable samples. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

Curators Dennis Carr, Jacqueline Francis, and John P. Bowles have organized the show and accompanying catalogue to cover, in Johnson’s work, “a spectrum of subjects, styles, and materials key to the multiracial diversity of the Bay Area” rather than NYC or Chicago. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5