American Art

Dear Reader,

We want to draw your attention to the Fall 2008 issue of American Art,
published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum.

American Arthas been an indispensable resource for curators, scholars,
and collectors since 1987 -- it is your window to a richer understanding
of America's art and culture. But you already know all this. What you
might not be aware of is the Fall 2008 issue.

As a foreign scholar working outside of North America, we think you will
find this issue especially interesting because it looks at American art
from the outside in. Veerle Thielemans, John Fagg, Michael Leja, David
Lubin, Ortrud Westheider, John Davis, and Olivier Meslay offer
commentary, three feature articles present in-depth views of individual
artists from a global perspective, and the research notes and book
trends offer fresh views and reviews of American art as seen from
abroad. How have current perspectives changed? Is American art
geographically confined? You will have to read this issue to find the
answers.

American Art is one of the best places to discover what's going on in
your field, and is an invaluable resource for Americanists abroad.

If you would like to subscribe to American Art, or would like more
information about the journal, please visit our Web site at
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/amart/current
(http://journalsuchicago.qm4.net/a/1/11578946/500625/default.aspx) .

Table of Contents

Commentaries

Looking at American Art from the Outside In
Veerle Thielemans

British Encounters with American Art
John Fagg

Two Americanists in China
Michael Leja and David Lubin

A "Small Sensation" in Hamburg
Ortrud Westheider

Teaching American Art History in Kyoto and Brussels
John Davis

"The Greater Inclination" in French Collections
Olivier Meslay

From Palace to Longhouse: Portraits of the Four Indian Kings in a
Transatlantic Context
Kevin R. Muller

Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939
Alexander Nemerov

Denman Waldo Ross and the Theory of Pure Design
Marie Frank

Painting Signs: Demuth's Portrait of Charles Duncan
Susan Chan Egan

The New Negro from Germany
Peter Schneck

Remapping American Art
Katherine Manthorne

Remembering Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008)
Kathleen A. Foster