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Next article FreeAbout the AuthorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMorePeter Betjemann is an associate professor of English and director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. The author of Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption (2011), he has also published on the visual arts in such journals as Word & Image and the Journal of Design History. His book-in-progress, “The Critical Canvas,” aims to show how literary paintings in the antebellum United States pushed the sociopolitical boundaries of their source texts in ways that—for reasons specific to the medium—were unavailable to critics writing in print forms.Lynda Roscoe Hartigan is the James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Her exhibitions and publications celebrate modern and contemporary American art, especially the work of Joseph Cornell, and African American and self-taught artists, as well as global fashion.Jamie L. Jones is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her essays on American culture and the environmental humanities have been published in Configurations, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Common-place, and the New York Times. She is writing a book about the cultural afterlife of the United States whaling industry.Melissa Ragain’s current book, “Domesticating the Invisible: Formalism and Environmental Aesthetics after WWII,” examines the impact of art psychology on notions of form and environment in the postwar United States. She is the editor of Jack Burnham’s Dissolve into Comprehension (2015) and is an assistant professor at Montana State University, Bozeman. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard in 2016–17.Annie Ronan is a visiting assistant professor of art history at Earlham College. She is currently working on a book about animals in nineteenth-century American visual culture. Next article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Art Volume 31, Number 3Fall 2017 Sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/696120 © 2017 by The Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.