Book Project: Collected Writings
Volume I: Collected Writings
Breaking Ground: Art Modernisms 1920-1950
“Roger Fry and Clive Bell Transform American Art Criticism in the 1920s,” Art Criticism, vol 2, no. 2, 1986, 69-84. Originally “Formalism and American Art Criticism in the 1920s”
“Sheldon Cheney: Crusader for Modernism,” Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 25, no. 3,1985, 11-17.
“Mysticism in the Machine Age: Jane Heap and The Little Review,” Twenty /One Art and Culture, University of Illinois, Chicago, vol. 1, no.1, 1990, 18-44.
“Modernism, Formalism, and Politics: The “Cubism and Abstract Art” Exhibition of 1936 at The Museum of Modern Art,” Art Journal, vol 47, no.4, 1988, 284-295.
“Elizabeth McCausland: 1930s Essays on Georgia O’Keeffe, Kathe Kollwitz, Gertrude Stein, Martha Graham, and Berenice Abbott,” Katy Deepwell, ed.,Women and Modernism, Manchester University Press, 1998, 83-96 (originally titled “Elizabeth McCausland: Art, Politics and Sexuality”).
“From Immigration to Community: The Jersey Homesteads Mural by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson” Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge University Press, 1995, 294-309 (originally titled “The Jersey Homesteads Mural: Ben Shahn, Bernarda Bryson and History Painting in the 1930s”).
“Gambling, Fencing and Camouflage, Homer Saint-Gaudens and the Carnegie International, 1922- 1950,” International Encounters: The Carnegie International and Contemporary Art 1896 – 1996, Carnegie Museum, 1996, 66-91.
“Franz Kafka, Hans Hofmann and T.S. Eliot: the Formation of Clement Greenberg in the 1930s” Art Criticism, vol. 5, no. 3, 1989, 47-64 (originally titled “Clement Greenberg in the 1930s: A New Perspective on his Criticism”).
Upcoming
Collected Writings Volume 2
Setting Our Hearts on Fire
Essays on Artists 1982 to the Present, Addressing Inequities and Inspiring a Future
These essays ranges from world renowned artists like Anthony Caro, Martha Rosler, Ann Hamilton, and Jacob Lawrence to young artists just beginning their careers. They are African American, Latinx, Asian, Native and White artists working in a wide range of media including installations, paintings, sculpture, and unclassifiable mixed media. From intimate altars to public installations, they address current crisis and historical inequities, spiritual truths and political realities. Taken together they speak to the ability of artists to make visible that which is so often left invisible. They expand our understanding through poetry and humor, they bring us together and give us hope. They demonstrate that creativity is our means of survival on our troubled earth.
1Homages
2 Uprooting History
3 Ecologies and Extinctions
4 Indigenous Resistances
4 Upending Expectations
6 Defying Clichés
7 Setting Our Hearts on Fire
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Collected Writings Volume 3: Global Art ( working title)
