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Landau, Ellen G.

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Ellen G. Landau

Mexico and American Modernism

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Ellen G. Landau

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00082.003

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Acknowledgments

This project could not have been realized without the significant help of a number of people and institutions. I am particularly grateful for the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Art History and Art, and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, as well as the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Much of the Guston chapter was written at the IAS in spring 2004, when I was in residence as the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member. A “We the People” fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for projects that “explore significant events and themes in our nation’s history and culture,” allowed me to take an entire sabbatical year to complete this book during the 2010–11 academic year. Help in production and subventing the illustrations was provided by CAS dean Cyrus Taylor at CWRU, the university’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, as well as the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists and the Terra Foundation for American Art. I would like to thank the following research institutions for facilitating access to needed materials (often primary sources): the Getty Research Library; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and New York; Dedalus Foundation; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Firestone Library, Princeton University; Institute for Advanced Study Library; Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Jewish Studies Library; Ingalls Library of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Kelvin Smith Library, CWRU; and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

This book would certainly not have come into being without the ideas, aid, and/or support of Irene Herner, Jürgen Harten, Patricia Fidler, Katherine Boller, and my patient, loving, and supportive husband, Howard Landau. Others especially helpful in a variety of critical ways include (in alphabetical order) Ziva Amishai-Maisels, David Areford, Joaquin Astorga, Lic. Lenía Batres Guadarrama, Karyn Behnke, Carolyn Walker Bynum, Terese Capucilli, Claude Cernuschi, Heidi B. Coleman, John Crosse, Christine Dakin, Heidi Downey, Jack Flam, Rebecca Foster, Gary Galbraith, Ann Eden Gibson, Helen A. Harrison, Amy Hau, Arlene Sievers Hill, Dan and Carol Kadish, Ruth and Morris Kadish, the late Frank Kadish, Jonathan D. Katz, Indra Lacis, Jay Landau, David McKee, Abigail Major, Susan Marsh, Joan Marter, Mary Mayer, Musa Mayer, Arq. Eugenio Mercado López, Courtney Ruffalo Miller, Cynthia Mills, Mónica Montes, Michael Moreford, Luis Efraín Pérez Aquino, Leah Poller, Sylvia Winter Pollock, Karen Potter, Katy Rogers, Martica Sawin, Debby Tenenbaum, Marcia Tucker, Judd Tully, the late Kirk Varnedoe, Michael R. Weil, Jr., Amy Winter, Froma Zeitlin, and the anonymous readers for Yale University Press. I have definitely benefited from the prior scholarship of many astute colleagues, whose ideas are cited in text and endnotes. In particular, I could not have written this book without the excellent work already done by James Oles, Irene Herner, Ann Gibson, Stephen Polcari, Michael Leja, Martica Sawin, Robert Mattison, Dore Ashton, Gregory Gilbert, and Robert Hobbs. I would like to dedicate Part Two to the memory of Melvin P. Lader, whose work on Arshile Gorky and Art of This Century remains indispensable to all serious scholars of Abstract Expressionism.

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