Anti-Heroic Images in Contemporary American Art

This essay examines anti-heroic images in American art. These images, which appropriate and even subvert the heroic, are grouped around four political protest movements that emerged during the 1960s: the civil rights movement, feminism, the environmental movement, and opposition to the Vietnam War. With the exception of the last, all of these struggles continue in some form today. Some of the artists discussed here refer in a given image to more than one protest movement, and art works focused on two different movements may share the same heroic referent. This essay considers “high” art by historic American artists from Emmanuel Leutze and John Singleton Copley to contemporaries such as Edward Kienholz and Kehinde Wiley, as well as imagery from popular culture such as the television series, The Simpsons. We see the joke of naming a cartoon character, Homer Simpson, after the author of the ancient Greek epic poem, the Odyssey. In the wake of the revolutionary movements of the 1960s, many people rejected traditional values along with heroic archetypes like the cowboy and other larger than life male stereotypes. The continuing popularity of the antihero in contemporary visual art parallels similar images in modern literature and in popular culture. Old definitions of the heroic got into question along with all authority figures. It may be that what we are witnessing is a shift in the popular mind from old notions of the heroic to a new popular imagination that now validates characteristics that were once thought to be un-heroic

Mapping Edward Hopper: Jo Hopper as her husband’s Cartographer

Two hand-drawn pictorial maps of South Truro and Cape Cod, by artist Josephine Hopper link art and cartography. She made them to introduce the Cape Cod she shared with her husband, Edward Hopper, to collectors who bought his painting of a site she mapped, these mid-1930s maps show little regard for accurate scale, and have artistic rather than technical style. They show landmarks, both natural and constructed, from either Edward’s or Jo’s paintings, or both. Her maps imitate aspects of modern topographic maps, recall turn-of-the-century pictorial maps of Paris, project her inner vision of the outer world that she and Edward both depicted

The Executive Committee, 1984-85

Initials take their meaning from their context

Tax-Free Fringe Benefits and Social Security: Is It Time to Change the Rules?

When then Assistant Attorney General Jackson made the above argument in defense of the social security system, economic conditions were vastly different from those faced by Congress and the Court in 1981

Jewish Women & American Art

The Samuel and Bettie Roberts Memorial Lecture in Jewish Art, Sponsored by the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies… Dr. Gail Levin, Art historian, biographer, and distinguished professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women\u27s Studies at City University of New York.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1328/thumbnail.jp

Is the Will the Way? Transmitting Interests in a Family Corporation

This article examines the effects of recent enactments upon the methods of transmitting interests in a closely-held corporation. Because the tax consequences will frequently vary depending upon whether the corporation is a C corporation or an S corporation, a brief description of each form precedes the discussion of the relevant tax consequences. The tax consequences, which will be discussed thereafter, involve interrelated questions: which consequences are involved, and who will bear their brunt? Because nontax considerations also influence the timing of stock transfers, the discussion will address them as well