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Description: Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources
~For every anthology of this nature, there is a script involving comparable steps, give or take, and countless decisions. Each milestone reached along the way defies today’s digital pace. But the tireless exchanges over continents, the many challenges met, and the endless deliberations over details that paved the years gone by between the initial idea and the...
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Acknowledgments
For every anthology of this nature, there is a script involving comparable steps, give or take, and countless decisions. Each milestone reached along the way defies today’s digital pace. But the tireless exchanges over continents, the many challenges met, and the endless deliberations over details that paved the years gone by between the initial idea and the final volume miraculously dissolve once the book becomes a reality on library shelves and scholars’ desks.
Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources has been designed to accompany scholars worldwide, at all stages of study and career, as a concise, accessible resource covering three centuries of the visual arts of the United States. If we are able to reach that ambitious objective, it is thanks first and foremost to John Davis—our earliest supporter of the project—and Michael Leja, whose dedication, collaboration, and engagement have been the long-running drive moving this project forward. I am grateful for their indomitable scholarly spirit, which shines through on every page of this anthology.
This publication would not have been possible without the ongoing support of the Board of Directors, executive leadership, and staff at the Terra Foundation for American Art. The foundation’s commitment to fostering exploration and understanding of the visual arts of the United States to a broad global audience parallels the goals of this publication, and we appreciate its support of this project. We are most grateful to Rebecca Park, who assisted us with steadfast purpose and enthusiasm along the many steps of the editorial process. We are also indebted to the Terra Foundation Paris Center interns who contributed to the project: Matthias Jullion, Noah Purdy, Erin Rose, Meredith Shanoski, and Severine Stier.
Outside the foundation, we wish to thank the wonderful team that helped us create the book. First and foremost, we must acknowledge Lacey Baradel, whose contributions have been instrumental, from providing research support at the early stages of the manuscript’s development to writing the extended captions and the chronology and sourcing images. Amanda Glesmann, Marina Isgro, and Serena Qiu should also be recognized for their valuable research assistance to the authors. We also sincerely appreciate the work of Kelly Finefrock-Creed, for her ever-constructive feedback and diligence as copy editor; James Toftness, for his patience and thoroughness as image and permissions editor; and June Sawyers, for her meticulousness as indexer. We are especially grateful to James Goggin and Shan James at Practise for an original design that beautifully captures the spirit of the publication.
We extend our gratitude to the many individuals we have called upon during the process of developing the English and international language editions of this project: Alex Alberro, Chen Anying, Paula Barreiro López, Iain Boyd Whyte, Euyoung Cho, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Eva Ehninger, Ursula Frohne, Mimi Gardner Gates, Michio Hayashi, Claudia Hopkins, Jessica Horton, Hiroko Ikegami, Go Kobayashi, Claudia Mattos, Atsushi Miura, Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Daisy Wang, Peggy Wang, Jay Xu, Josh Yiu, and Jian Zhang. Our thanks as well to the team of international scholars who participated in panel sessions in Washington, DC, and Paris in 2016: Wendy Bellion, Pauline Chevalier, Rachael Z. DeLue, Ellery Foutch, Fabiola Martinez Rodriguez, John Ott, David Peters Corbett, Sigrid Ruby, Joshua Shannon, and Robert Slifkin. These thoughtful exchanges were essential in helping shape this manuscript. Our sincere appreciation goes out to Thomas Busciglio and Hélène Valance who shared insights as the volume took form.
We would like to thank the University of California Press, publishers of Professor Davis’s previous anthology, American Art to 1900: A Documentary History, and his coauthor, Sarah Burns, who generously granted us permission to use materials from that volume. We owe a debt of gratitude to the scholars, like Professors Davis and Burns, who first published these documents and whose work was referenced when sourcing material. The team at the University of Chicago Press have provided essential assistance throughout this process to facilitate marketing and distribution, for which we are so grateful. We also thank Patricia Fidler for coordinating the inclusion of this title on Yale University Press’s Art & Architecture ePortal.
We particularly appreciate the contributions of the artists, authors, and institutions who granted permission to have their texts and images reproduced in this volume.
To all our collaborators who participated in this journey—we thank you most of all for sharing in our commitment to disseminating the voices and works of artists and their supporters, which lie at the very heart of Art of the United States.
Francesca Rose, Program Director, Publications, Terra Foundation for American Art
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