"In this acclaimed revisionist study, Doss chronicles a historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in t…
"In this acclaimed revisionist study, Doss chronicles a historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. She centers her study on Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock, Benton's foremost student in t…
"In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now…
In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now…
In this text, Erika Doss argues that memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express and claim those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniver…
In this text, Erika Doss argues that memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express and claim those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniver…