Since its founding in 1987, American Art has been an indispensable source for scholars, educators, curators, museum-goers, collectors, and professors and students at colleges and universities worldwide. The journal critically engages material and conceptual conditions of art and provides a forum for the expanding field of American art history. It considers the role played by art in the ongoing transnational and transcultural formation of America as a contested geography, identity, and idea. Full-color plates and concise prose offer broad appeal.
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Current Issue – Spring 2024
Crystal Z Campbell, Notes From Black Wall Street: I’ve Stayed In The Front Yard All My Life, I Want A Peek At The Back (detail), 2020. Mixed media, 24 × 30 in. Courtesy of Crystal Z Campbell © 2020 Crystal Z Campbell
In the Spring 2024 issue of American Art:
Crystal Z Campbell confronts centuries of lawful surveillance of Black Americans
- The contractual obligations of owning a Douglas Huebler print
- When a home movie becomes photojournalism…the Zapruder film
- George Inness glazes over racial capitalism and ecological destruction
- Minnie Evans builds a haven from Wilmington’s legacy of toxicity
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Editorial Board
- heather ahtone, First Americans Museum
- Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico
- Mary Coffey, Dartmouth College
- David J. Getsy, University of Virginia
- Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
- Michael Hatt, University of Warwick
- Chon A. Noriega, University of California, Los Angeles
- Jolene Rickard, Cornell University
- Nizan Shaked, California State University, Long Beach
- Louise Siddons, University of Southhampton
- Cherise Smith, University of Texas at Austin
- Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago