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New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950; New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Drama

Kevin R. McNamara
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 218–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-089
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kevin R. McNamara © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950 . By William Chapman Sharpe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 402 pp. $35.00. New York and the Literary...
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The Painting of Modern Light: Local Color Before Regionalism

Jonathan David Shelly Schroeder
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 551–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717407
Published: 01 September 2014
...Jonathan David Shelly Schroeder Schroeder’s essay works to draw critical attention to the aesthetic history of local color, and, more broadly, to the underrecognized relation between local color and realism. In returning local color to its long aesthetic history within painting, Schroeder argues...
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Figure 2 Oil painting of African woman wearing red coral necklace and child, painted by Albert Eckhout in 1641. Photograph by John Lee. National Museum Denmark

Oil painting of African woman wearing red coral necklace and child, painted...

in Antebellum Coral > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 2 Oil painting of African woman wearing red coral necklace and child, painted by Albert Eckhout in 1641. Photograph by John Lee. National Museum Denmark More
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Figure 7 Oil painting of Eva and Topsy, featuring Topsy in red coral necklace, earrings, and bracelet, painted by J. A. Bingham in 1857. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT

Oil painting of Eva and Topsy, featuring Topsy in red coral necklace, earri...

in Antebellum Coral > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 7 Oil painting of Eva and Topsy, featuring Topsy in red coral necklace, earrings, and bracelet, painted by J. A. Bingham in 1857. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT More
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Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970

Kathryn Walkiewicz
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 151–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878578
Published: 01 March 2021
...Kathryn Walkiewicz Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity . By Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . 2018 . 215 pp. Paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $35.00 . Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary...
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“Object into Subject”: Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and the Terrors of Visual Art

Wendy W. Walters
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-020
Published: 01 September 2008
...Wendy W. Walters This essay juxtaposes two readings of J. M. W. Turner's 1840 painting, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On : one by British art historian John Ruskin and the other by contemporary Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. To examine the racial and national...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory

Hayley C. Stefan
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950792
Published: 01 December 2023
... experience of incarceration out of chronological order, encouraging new connections across a massive collection of materials: letters, photographs, federal surveillance documents, paintings, sermons, and other ephemera surrounding World War II Japanese American incarceration. Their respective acts...
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“An Art That Won't Behave”: Film and the Seven Arts , 1907-21

Michael Devine
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 89–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1540959
Published: 01 March 2012
... of American cinema: in the critical writings and poetry of the journal's contributors, including James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Babette Deutsch, and in the works of artists close to the journal—John Sloan's painting Movies, Five Cents (1907) and Paul Strand...
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Figure 1 The Night Watch’s missing panels, reconstructed with AI, are attached slightly adjacent to the original painting. Credit: Rijkmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/for-the-first-time-in-300-years-the-night-watch-is-complete-again

The Night Watch ’s missing panels, reconstructed with AI, are attached slig...

in Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI? > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 The Night Watch ’s missing panels, reconstructed with AI, are attached slightly adjacent to the original painting. Credit: Rijkmuseum/Reinier Gerritsen. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/for-the-first-time-in-300-years-the-night-watch-is-complete-again More
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Ezra Pound's Whistler

Rebecca Beasley
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 485–516.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-485
Published: 01 September 2002
... to Whistler’s impressionism as ‘‘the spirit of our times and he commended attempts in poetry to reproduce ‘‘the vision of a London street at midnight with its long rows of light 4 Even in 1913 Ford Madox Ford described ‘‘the real stuff of the poetry of our day’’ by painting a Whistler nocturne to describe t...
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Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet

Brian Glavey
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 781–806.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-039
Published: 01 December 2007
... and of the companion volume, In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art, is an impres- sive assembly of representations of O’Hara painted, sculpted, or photo- graphed by many of the most influential artists of the period.1 These artworks testify to the power of the charismatic personality...
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“A Plea For Color”: Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 833–869.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-833
Published: 01 December 2004
... his people, historically, dramatically, hilariously, but hon- estly.—ArchibaldJ.MotleyJrTheNegroinArt’’ WhilethenameArchibaldMotleybringsinstant recognition only to specialized scholars, two of Motley’s paintings are so well known that they have become, for many...
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Figure 1 Illustration of Petrus Camper’s theory of facial angles for drawing skulls and heads of monkeys, orangutans, Central Asians, and Angolan Africans. Engraved by Thomas Kirk c. 1794. Printed in The Works of the late Professor Camper, on the connexion between the science of anatomy and the arts of drawing, painting, and statuary . . . illustrated with seventeen plates (London: Sold by J. Hearne, 1821).

Illustration of Petrus Camper’s theory of facial angles for drawing skulls ...

in The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2021
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Red Cars with Red Lights and Red Drivers: Color, Crane, and Qualia

Nicholas Gaskill
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 719–745.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-044
Published: 01 December 2009
... as explicitly as he did in The Third Violet (1897). In this often-ignored and much-maligned novel of manners, Crane places an artist and a writer before a painting in progress and registers their different responses. As William Hawker works on a landscape of the countryside at twilight, his...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”

Madeline Zehnder
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003540
Published: 01 June 2021
... of colonial life, which required constant renegotiation and reassertion of social networks across distance. Moreover, as Catherine E. Kelly ( 2016 : 106) has shown, most eighteenth- and nineteenth-century miniatures were painted on ivory, a substance that facilitated the use of miniatures as markers of white...
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“Dark Spot” in the Picturesque: The Aesthetics of Polygenism and Henry James's “A Landscape-Painter”

Kendall Johnson
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 59–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-59
Published: 01 March 2002
... attempt to paint Miriam American Literature, Volume 74, Number 1, March 2002. Copyright © 2002 by Duke University Press. 60 American Literature Quarterman than at first meets the eye.3 Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly as ‘‘A Landscape Painter’’ (without the hyphen), the story preceded...
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The Visual Art of Invisible Man : Ellison's Portrait of Blackness

Lena M. Hill
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-046
Published: 01 December 2009
... daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and paintings displayed throughout the world. Gates concludes that Douglass’s “public, reproducible image” allowed African Americans “to recon- struct” their public faces and, to a large extent, set the stage for Wash- ington’s New Negro project.27 Ellison’s...
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Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors

June Hee Chung
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-003
Published: 01 June 2007
..., the esteemed high stylist, was inspired by the commercial arts. Yet James considered advertising a sufficiently complex art, with techniques that rivaled, rather than simply imitated, those deployed in fine-art forms, such as painting and literature. Incorporating devel- opments in American...
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The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies

Tina Chen
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861541
Published: 01 June 2017
... website can be accessed at www.nanum.org/eng/ . The women who live there have been featured in many interviews, in films such as Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s Silence Broken and The House of Sharing , and as the subjects of various art exhibits featuring their paintings (produced as part of an ongoing art...
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Artificial Bloom

Tung-Hui Hu
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 429–433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575232
Published: 01 June 2023
...Tung-Hui Hu [email protected] Myriad (Tulips) . By Anna Ridler . C-type digital prints with handwritten annotations, magnetic paint, magnets. 2018 . Secret Garden: Our Stories Are Algorithms . By Stephanie Dinkins . Three-channel interactive video projection with six-channel...
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