{"title":"Cut Aesthetics: William H. Johnson’s Scrapbook History Paintings","authors":"M. Best","doi":"10.1086/703659","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines a scrapbook created by African American painter William H. Johnson, revealing how Johnson altered and redirected the graphic and linguistic messages of print materials in order to expand the dialogues of his pictorial narratives, and to present an alternative history to the dominant one.","PeriodicalId":41204,"journal":{"name":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","volume":"57 1","pages":"4 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART JOURNAL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/703659","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay examines a scrapbook created by African American painter William H. Johnson, revealing how Johnson altered and redirected the graphic and linguistic messages of print materials in order to expand the dialogues of his pictorial narratives, and to present an alternative history to the dominant one.