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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.

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#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
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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 #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/5
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
anet Sobel, Spring Festival, 1942. Oil on canvas, 46 x 48 in. Collection of the Spieler family

Primitive-style oil painting of a group of people with varied skin tones, some nude and some elaborately dressed, in a landscape with flowering trees and a small tile-roofed house.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Janet Sobel’s All Over, Everywhere - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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Closer to Mainstream: Dorothy Liebes Goes Digital - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
Bessie Potter (Vonnoh) in her studio in the Athenaeum Building on Van Buren Street, Chicago. Reproduced in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, December 9, 1897, 373; Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Black and white photograph of a woman in a long skirt and full-sleeved blouse seated on a bed in a crowded interior. Behind her are a series of small white figural sculptures.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Douglass’s Pictures, Julien’s Lessons - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Norman Parish’s Historical Gyrations - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“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
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How Free is Free? Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Canyon: Robert Rauschenberg’s Declaration of Independence - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Teaching and/as/in Marie Watt’s Sewing Circles - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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Red, Fried, and Blue: Kiyan Williams Remakes the Flag - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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
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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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“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
“Human photo,” from back cover, Flickr Foundation, A Generated Family of Man, 2023. “A Flickr of Humanity Project.” 

Digital image with four quadrants, showing a bust-length image of a humanoid figure in three of the four quadrants; only one has a legible face. In the lower right quadrant is the flick.org logo and the words "flick.org"
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In the new #JournalPanorama, Helen Lewandowski writes that the suggestion in Flickr’s A Generated Family of Man “that generative AI images can ‘restore historical images’ is worrying, since it can also distort the past in our own contemporary image.” bit.ly/3CKVCB9 #AHAATakeover #AI 1/2
Raphael Platnick, Eniwetok, 1944. In Edward Steichen, A Family of Man (1955), 30th anniversary ed. (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986), 180–81.

Open two-page spread of a book with a narrow vertical black -and-white photograph on the far right of a dead soldier face-down on a rocky ground. The remainder of the pages are black, and on the far left are the words "Who is the slayer, who is the victim? Speak. / Sophocles"
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In Flickr’s A Generated Family of Man, students at Goldsmith’s recreated some of the original Family of Man images with AI prompts. They fed screenshots of the original photos into an AI caption generator and used results as the text prompt for Image Creator. #AHAATakeover #JournalPanorama #AI 1/2
Left: Dorothea Lange, Filipinos Cutting Lettuce; Salinas, California, 1935, Farm Security Administration (FSA). In Edward Steichen, A Family of Man (1955), 30th anniversary ed. (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986), 65. Right: “Behold the mighty elephants, creating beautiful footprints in the soft earth. 🐾🌱 #GiantSteps #EarthyVibes #WildernessWonders.” Flickr Foundation, A Generated Family of Man, 2023, 67. “A Flickr of Humanity Project.” 

On the left, black and white photograph of workers harvesting a field, bent at the waist and leaning down to pick plants from the earth. On the right, a color photograph of a front foot and partial trunk of an elephant atop red earth marked by animal footprints.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Monday morning got you feeling a little like a zombie? We feel you. Check out Helen Lewandowski's “Zombie Humanism, Generative AI Images, and Photography” in the current #JournalPanorama, a review of the @flickrfdn.bsky.social's “A Generated Family of Man.” bit.ly/3CKVCB9 #AHAATakeover 1/3
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Zombie Humanism, Generative AI Images, and Photography - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There’s a little Easter egg in the Pacita Abad review we shared earlier today. THREE different artists in the new #JournalPanorama grapple with the Statue of Liberty: Norman Parish, Ben Shahn, and Abad. Stay with our #AHAATakeover next week for more on American Artists x American symbols!
Norman Parish, ‘Gyrations of American Gothic’ (detail), 1969/70. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in. DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Courtesy of the artist’s estate

Colorful oil painting featuring a the Statue of Liberty, and to its right, a Black man and woman standing in the same pose as Grant Wood's "American Gothic," wearing the same clothing.
Ben Shahn, cover for The Nation, June 28, 1952. From The Nation. © 1952 The Nation Company. All rights reserved. Used under license; © 2024 Estate of Ben Shahn / CARCC Ottawa; Photo: Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University

Magazine cover featuring a black-and-white illustration of the head and part of the upraised arm of the Statue of Liberty. Across the top are the words "How free is free? / The Nation / June 28, 1952."
Pacita Abad, 'L.A. Liberty' (detail), 1992. Acrylic, cotton yarn, plastic buttons, mirrors, gold thread, and painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas, 94 x 58 in. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Photo by author

Colorful quilt that is a reinterpretation of the Statue of Liberty; the woman's face is dark-skinned, her dress is multicolored, and rays of multicolored light shoot out from her crown.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Also for your weekend viewing: a retrospective of Filipino American textile artist Pacita Abad. Curated by Victoria Sung at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and reviewed by Marissa Vigneault, it is up now at MoMA PS1 in NYC. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover bit.ly/4hUBa0N 1/4
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Pacita Abad - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In fine #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover tradition, our first takeover Friday comes to you with weekend exhibition recs! First up: Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks, which originated at the Art Institute of Chicago and is now at @highmuseumofart.bsky.social. Reviewed by Lee Ann Custer. bit.ly/3Z4p4ta 1/3
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Georgia O’Keeffe: “My New Yorks” - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ever wondered which artists are most discussed on the AmArt-L listserv? To be honest, there are no big surprises. Gonna take a lot to dethrone Winslow Homer and Asher B. Durand. bit.ly/3ZikybS #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/3
Bar graph titled "Most Discussed Artists (by Email Subject Line)." The Y axis ranges from 0 to 25, and the X axis is labeled "Homer, Winslow," "Durand, Asher B.," "Whistler, J.A.M.," "Catlett, Elizabeth," "Kent, Rockwell," "Rauschenberg, Robert," "Sargent, John Singer," "Eakins, Thomas," "Bellows, George," "Peale, Charles Willson," "Huntington, Daniel," "Henri, Robert," "Lawrence, Jacob," "Johnson, Eastman," "Stieglitz, Alfred." Homer has the tallest bar, at about 22; Stieglitz has the shortest, at 9.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
During peak years of activity, writes Keidra Daniels Navaroli in the current #JournalPanorama, “members challenged the role and purpose of AmArt-L…cementing AmArt-L’s value as a resource, a community, and a form of user-driven activism.” bit.ly/3ZikybS #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/2
Oval-shaped word cloud in shades of purple, yellow, and green. The largest words, in the center, include "call," "art," "history," "amart," "american," "cfp," "symposium," "new," "papers," and "fellowship."
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Andrea Pappas and Sue Luftschein were just graduate students when they founded the now-indispensable American Art Listserv (AmArt-L), writes Keidra Daniels Navaroli in the current #JournalPanorama. It has grown to 1,270 subscribers and remains vitally active. bit.ly/3ZikybS #AHAATakeover
Line graph titled "AmArt-L Annual Activity" with a Y axis ranging from 0 to 800 and an x axis ranging from 1990 to 2025. The highest peaks of activity are in 1995 and 2017.
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Did you know that it’s not only #JournalPanorama’s 10th anniversary but also the 30th anniversary of the renowned AmArt-L listserv? The journal’s DEI/DAH Editor, Keidra Daniels Navaroli, crunches decades of data in today’s #AHAATakeover. bit.ly/3ZikybS #AmericanArt #DigitalArtHistory 1/2
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A Look Back: Thirty Years of AmArt-L - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#Americanist questionnaire Q4 (last one!): In five words or fewer (list of adjectives or phrases welcome!), what are some words that portend our field’s future? bit.ly/3CxYL7k #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/2
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#Americanist questionnaire Q3: Can you name or describe a book, article, lecture, exhibition, or collection installation that you felt was a watershed moment / game changer in the field over the past ten years? What made it pivotal? bit.ly/3CxYL7k #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/6
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#Americanist questionnaire Q2: How do you feel about the social justice direction many humanities fields are incorporating? Is our field doing this, in your opinion? Is this a good direction? Why or why not? bit.ly/3CxYL7k #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/4
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Q1: “American art” was initially a defensive term, responding to the prevalence of European art as a primary field of research. What are your thoughts on “US art” as a renamed category of study? Does this offer a more macro view of the field? bit.ly/3CxYL7k #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/3
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#JournalPanorama’s 10th anniversary issue takes a self-scrutinizing look at the state of our field with a questionnaire organized by Co-Executive Editor Jenni Sorkin. We’ve published responses from 11 diverse scholars. #AHAATakeover bit.ly/3CxYL7k 1/2
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Americanist Questionnaire - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Good morning, #Americanists! This is @jsrouthier.bsky.social , Managing Editor of #JournalPanorama, and I am delighted to begin our two-plus-week #AHAATakeover today. This is our tenth anniversary issue, and there is much to celebrate and to scrutinize. bit.ly/4ezRotn #AmericanArt #OpenAccess 1/4
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Tenth Anniversary Issue (10.2) - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our Fall 2024 issue of #JournalPanorama is here! To celebrate, @jsrouthier.bsky.social will be taking over our social media platforms starting tomorrow, November 20th. In the meantime, please read and enjoy this issue atjournalpanorama.org! #AHAATakeover #AmericanArt
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Always a pleasure to team up with AHAA for a #JournalPanorama takeover! Thanks for all the likes and the conversation. Happy turn of the year to all! —@jsrouthier.bsky.social
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
More on #modernism as we wrap up both today’s #BookReviews and our fall #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover! We finish up with Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion by Erika Doss (UChicago Press, 2022), reviewed by Elizabeth L. Langhorne. bit.ly/47ApQBe 1/4
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Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Paris! MoMA! Here is a #BookReview for a title that is sure to excite someone on your holiday gift list. Antje Gamble reviews MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art by Caroline M. Riley (UC Press, 2023) in the current #JournalPanorama. bit.ly/3N6yxLi #AHAATakeover
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MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art - 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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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Continuing with #BookReviews on this last day of our #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover, here’s Isabel L. Taube’s review of The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America by Elizabeth L. Lee (Bloomsbury, 2022) bit.ly/3R7p0oI
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Next up on #BookReview day as we wrap up our #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover: Elaine Y. Yau reviews All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Random House, 2021). bit.ly/47FhpEK 1/4
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
The last day of our biannual #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover is all about books, books, books! First up: Katherine Manthorne reviews Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America by Margaretta M. Lovell (Penn State UP, 2023). bit.ly/3RyzsXT 1/3
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Fully embracing the idea of “necrofutures,” Synatra Smith incorporates the Philly Necrofutures initiative into their own augmented reality project, reinterpreting 3D digital models of African art objects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as altars. bit.ly/49XeIQD #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 1/2
Still from Recorded demonstration of augmented reality iOS application on Sacred Geographic Superimpositions story map © Synatra Smith
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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
In the Philly Necrofutures project, material analysis and historical research meets digital technology in part through photogrammetry: 3D digital models of African sculptural works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover #AfricanArt #DigitalArtHistory 1/3
Screenshot from TikTok video of Synatra Smith photographing and creating a model of mblolo bla, 2021. © Synatra Smith; 

Screenshot showing a woman in a colorful top, wearing a mask, arranging a small sculpture on a stand atop a bright green cloth. In the upper left is the TikTok log over the username @steamfrank
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