Anthony W Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony W Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Johnson and Renaissance Humanism
This chapter discusses an underexplored and relatively unappreciated, but essential, aspect of Samuel Johnson’s writing and thinking: his intellectual relationship with Renaissance humanism. Looking at representative figures such as Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Bacon, and Michel de Montaigne, Lee explores the influence these writers and thinkers had upon Johnson, describing his lifelong interest in the kinds of scholarly works for which they were…
Johnson’s “French Authors”
There are three unidentified allusions in the Johnsonian corpus that form a triad, given that all are tagged with the vaguely enigmatic phrase “a French author.”1 In Rambler 5, Johnson writes A Fre
The Middle Ground of Early Chinese Photography
Two New Allusions
Both Samuel Johnson and his disciple James Boswell were masters of deploying intertextual allusions to impart greater freight to their meaning. In Rambler 8 Johnson covertly alludes to the
Lens of War
Lens of War is the most recent publication in the University of Georgia Press's innovative UnCivil Wars series that includes other books devoted to the Civil War's environmental disaster; its widespread material destruction; its cowardice, knavery, and scavenging; its unseemly freaks; and even its amputated limbs. In this volume, J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher asked twenty-seven historians to choose a single Civil War photograph and ref…
The One and the Many
The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context Grant H. Kester Durham, Duke University Press, 2011 320 pp., ISBN: 9780822349877 The ‘one’ in the title of this wide-ranging
Silence
American Histories of Photography
Sight Unseen
Book Review| July 01 2006 Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, Martin A. Berger. Anthony W. Lee Anthony W. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 198–199. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501765 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anthony W. Lee; Sight …
Picturing Chinatown
Journal Article Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco Get access Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco. By Lee Anthony W.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Robert R. Swartout, Jr. Robert R. Swartout, Jr. Carroll College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volum…
Picturing Chinatown
This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art hist…
Picturing Chinatown
Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco and its San Francisco public
Journal Article Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco and its San Francisco Public Get access ANTHONY W. LEE ANTHONY W. LEE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 72–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.2.72 Published: 01 December 1996
Bohemian California and political dissent
Bohemian California and Political Dissent Anthony W. Lee (bio) Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California. By Richard Cándida Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. 560 pages. $35.00. Ever since the gold rush, early Californians worried about the state’s geographical isolation and the kinds of adverse effects this might have on its high culture. The new inhabitants were, after all, transplanted eas…
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Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco and its San Francisco public
Journal Article Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco and its San Francisco Public Get access ANTHONY W. LEE ANTHONY W. LEE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 72–82, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/19.2.72 Published: 01 December 1996
Bohemian California and political dissent
Bohemian California and Political Dissent Anthony W. Lee (bio) Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Politics in California. By Richard Cándida Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. 560 pages. $35.00. Ever since the gold rush, early Californians worried about the state’s geographical isolation and the kinds of adverse effects this might have on its high culture. The new inhabitants were, after all, transplanted eas…
Picturing Chinatown
Picturing Chinatown
This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art hist…
Picturing Chinatown
Journal Article Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco Get access Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco. By Lee Anthony W.. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xiv + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) Robert R. Swartout, Jr. Robert R. Swartout, Jr. Carroll College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volum…
Sight Unseen
Book Review| July 01 2006 Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, Martin A. Berger. Anthony W. Lee Anthony W. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 198–199. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501765 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anthony W. Lee; Sight …
American Histories of Photography
Silence
The One and the Many
The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context Grant H. Kester Durham, Duke University Press, 2011 320 pp., ISBN: 9780822349877 The ‘one’ in the title of this wide-ranging
Lens of War
Lens of War is the most recent publication in the University of Georgia Press's innovative UnCivil Wars series that includes other books devoted to the Civil War's environmental disaster; its widespread material destruction; its cowardice, knavery, and scavenging; its unseemly freaks; and even its amputated limbs. In this volume, J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher asked twenty-seven historians to choose a single Civil War photograph and ref…
Two New Allusions
Both Samuel Johnson and his disciple James Boswell were masters of deploying intertextual allusions to impart greater freight to their meaning. In Rambler 8 Johnson covertly alludes to the
The Middle Ground of Early Chinese Photography
Johnson’s “French Authors”
There are three unidentified allusions in the Johnsonian corpus that form a triad, given that all are tagged with the vaguely enigmatic phrase “a French author.”1 In Rambler 5, Johnson writes A Fre
Johnson and Renaissance Humanism
This chapter discusses an underexplored and relatively unappreciated, but essential, aspect of Samuel Johnson’s writing and thinking: his intellectual relationship with Renaissance humanism. Looking at representative figures such as Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Bacon, and Michel de Montaigne, Lee explores the influence these writers and thinkers had upon Johnson, describing his lifelong interest in the kinds of scholarly works for which they were…
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