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American Art
A journal of the nation's visual heritage
Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941 (detail), 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 50 1/4 x 60 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist
Since its founding in 1987, American Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars, collectors, and museum-goers who want to enrich their understanding of the nation's art and culture. American Art encompasses all aspects of the country's visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times. Elegant color plates give the journal a distinctive appearance, and the articles are written in an engaging style.
Articles planned in the coming months include the following:
- Commentaries on the theme of American art and the mass media, by Jason E. Hill, Elisa Schaar, Jason D. LaFountain, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Michael Lobel, François Brunet, Richard Meyer, and Ursula Frohne
- The Sublime and the Banal in Post-War Photography of the American West, by Cécile Whiting
- "The Bewhiskered Rustic, Turned Orator": Robert Robinson's Old Men, Politics, and the Saturday Evening Post, by John Fagg
- Hands off the Machine: Workers' Hands and Revolutionary Symbolism in the Visual Culture of 1930s America, by Max Fraser
- An appreciation of Will Barnet, by Gail Stavitsky
A one-year subscription for individuals costs $48, and provides full online access to all back issues of American Art. Members of Friends of the Smithsonian, Smithsonian National Associates, American Studies Association, and the College Art Association receive subscriptions at the discounted price of $38. The rate for students is $34. Higher rates apply for institutions.
For information on subscribing, purchasing single issues, or submitting articles to the journal, which is published for the museum by the University of Chicago Press, please visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/amart.html. This link also acts as a portal to the electronic edition of the journal. For information on a new publication prize for foreign scholars, please consult www.americanart.si.edu/research/awards/terra.
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