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 – Summer 2023
Marie Watt, Companion Series (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021. Reclaimed satin bindings, industrial felt, tin jingles, thread, 63 × 168 in. Collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation. Photo: Kevin McConnell. Courtesy of the artist
In the Summer 2023 issue of American Art:
- Spectacles of performance and pain in José Clemente Orozco’s prints
- The privilege of sunlit airflow in utopian tenement paintings
- An AmerRícan archive in Juan Sánchez’s video collage
- The collision of Hodinöhsö:ni’ Sky World and Stieglitz’s frontier skies
- McKinley’s presidential punch bowl and the glass workers who made it
- A stamp-by-stamp tour of Donald Evans’s imaginary world
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Sami Siegelbaum is the recipient of the 19th Annual Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for his article “Christopher D’Arcangelo Speculates: Transcending the Art-Labor Dialectic in Post-Fiscal-Crisis New York.” Read it in the Spring 2022 issue of American Art.
The Summer 2019 issue of American Art is our current open-access issue: read it for free!
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Editorial Board
heather ahtone, First Americans Museum
Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico
Mary Coffey, Dartmouth College
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
David J. Getsy, University of Virginia
Michael Hatt, University of Warwick
Chon A. Noriega, University of California, Los Angeles
Jolene Rickard, Cornell University
Cherise Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago