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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

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 · Dec 6

As you plan your year-end giving, please consider a tax-deductible gift to #JournalPanorama. You’ll be supporting some of the best scholarship anywhere in #AmericanArt, including independent and emerging scholars, #openaccess to all. Thank you and happy turn of the year! bit.ly/49n5AVk 2/2

End-of-Year Appeal - Panorama

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

#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 · Dec 6

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

Call for Nominations: Co-Executive Editor - Panorama

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

“All of this,” Payer writes, “was offered in service of our work in American art; work that as Renée Ater reminded us must ‘be relevant to the communities we are teaching and living in’ during a Saturday afternoon panel.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

There were also broader conversations related to the American survey course and the study of American sculpture, as well as visits to the Joe Minter exhibition at the Marc Steel Warehouse and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at UAlabama at Birmingham. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

Following a keynote by #JournalPanorama’s editors (you’re welcome), attendees enjoyed sessions on “Meaning, Materials, and Materiality,” “Home/Place,” “Imagined American Wests,” “Transnational and Transcultural Connections,” and “The Detritus of American Art.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

A highlight was a tour of Joe Minter’s African Village in America. “An immersion into a cacophony of improvised sculptures that pay homage to African Diasporic history and the Civil Rights Movement…was a fitting preamble” for all that followed, Payer writes. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 6

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

AHAA Recap: What Does the Future Hold for American Art History? - Panorama

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Finally, Manthorne observes, the catalogue deals powerfully with “Indigeneity and the legacy of colonialism,” particularly in the work of contemporary Arctic artists: Kiliii Yüyan, Julie Edel Hardenber, Minik Bidstrup, Inuuteq Storch, & Outi Pieski, among others. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Another theme, Manthorne writes, is “the surprising degree of diversity among the explorers in the region,” including “women, representatives of many Euro-American nations, men of color such as Matthew Henson, and Indigenous people.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Manthorne identifies three key themes that “ cut across a half-millennium of visual history,” including the “directed gaze,” a deep cross-cultural attention to the importance of looking, observing and recording moments of contact, conditions, and change. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Awe of the Arctic accompanied a show of the same name at @nypl.bsky.social in early 2024 but stands on its own as “a pictorial record of the Polar North created over the past five hundred years.” It includes 15 “short, smart essays” from scholars in various fields. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History - Panorama

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Brookhiser’s strength is conveying that Trumbull’s great paintings of the Declaration and Washington’s resignation set forth “an epic hypothesis regarding civilian self-government and that they then prove the feasibility of that hypothesis.” Fingers crossed, Dad. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Staiti says “Brookhiser’s art talk is fair but incomplete,” acknowledging both that “it is important to remember that Brookhiser is not writing for professional art historians” and that nevertheless some masterworks “[need] richer treatment for any audience.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

The history is “solid and succinct,” writes Staiti, though dependent on Trumbull’s own autobiography. The result is that he "endorses the mythic figure at the same time that he recognizes the problem with the mythic tendencies in Trumbull’s narrative of himself.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

Brookhiser is a senior editor at the National Review and a frequent biographer of founding-father types; this is his first attempt at art history. Accordingly, Staiti observes, he focuses more on Trumbull’s life than his art. #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

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
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Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution - Panorama

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

*collectIVE printmaking 🙄

AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

The book’s cover, a wrenching serigraph by Sandra C. Fernández, for instance, calls out the “monoethnic imaginary of white nationalism” in the US that “fuels the criminalization of unaccompanied minors navigating the gauntlet of cross-border migration.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 5/5

AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

The book’s focus is not terminology, however, but how collecting printmaking activities within these communities have worked to reclaim or “reterritorialize” the Americas by centering the body “as a site of knowledge, violence, racialization, and resistance.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 4/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

…Instead, Reinoza uses “Latinx” to bring “much-needed attention to artists of diverse national origins, racial positions, and class experiences, who have been constituted as ‘forever foreign’ within the Anglo-dominant imaginary of US nationalism.” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 3/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

The term Latinx is a controversial one in today’s discourse, as both Reinoza and Coffey acknowledge. “Like [cultural anthropologist Arlene] Dávila,” Coffey writes, “Reinoza refuses to define ‘Latinx’ in positivist, universalizing, or transhistorical terms...” #JournalPanorama #AHAATakeover 2/5

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AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

Reclaiming the Americas: Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory - Panorama

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