Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2013 issue (volume 28, no. 1) of American Art, the scholarly journal published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press. Please find the table of contents below.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Commentaries
Jessica L. Horton and Cherise Smith, “The Particulars of Postidentity”
Derek Conrad Murray, “Mickalene Thomas: Afro-Kitsch and the Queering of Blackness”
Mark Watson, “Jimmie Durham’s Building a Nation: Across Post-Indian, Post-American Modernities”
Rose G. Salseda, “The New Wave of Identity Politics: Juan Capistran’s White Minority”

Feature Articles
Kenneth Haltman, “Flight and Predation: The Anti-documentary Poetics of Alfred Jacob Miller”
Valerie Hellstein, “The Cage-iness of Abstract Expressionism”
Laura Turner Igoe, ““Appropriate in a Sylvan State’: William Rush’s Self-Portrait and Environmental Transformation”

New Perspective
Seth Feman, “Marian Anderson’s Presence”

For more information on American Art, including how to subscribe or submit a manuscript for publication consideration, please see http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals/journal/amart.html.

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