Tanya Sheehan

Biographic Data

ID526199
NAMETanya Sheehan
GIVEN NAMESTanya
FAMILY NAMESheehan
SIGNATURESHEEHAN T
AFFILIATIONSColumbia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Entangled Histories of Art and Medicine

    Open AccessTanya SheehanARTICLEOxford Art Journal2026

  • "Tanya Sheehan. Review of "The Unseen Truth

    Open AccessTanya SheehanARTICLECAA Reviews2025

  • China

    C Roberts, Claire M Roberts et al.CHAPTER2023

  • American Art Historiography, Slavery, and Its Aftermath

    Tanya SheehanARTICLENka Journal of Contemporary…2023

    True to its cultural roots in the United States, the field of American art history has been slow to recognize centuries of slavery’s shaping of visual production and has only begun to address historiography’s persistent devaluation of Black lives. This article explores how scholars over the last decade are attempting to integrate discussions of slavery into studies of American art and reflects on the political implications of doing so. Their work…

  • Where to Begin

    Tanya SheehanARTICLEAmerican Art2022

    This essay focuses on the temporal boundaries of the American art survey course taught to undergraduates—particularly the entry point from which art historians have developed their stories about artistic and social change over time—in order to press further on the investment of this pedagogical apparatus in White racial identity. It reflects on the implications, from a critical race perspective, of beginning the survey with the year 1492 or 1776 …

  • Japan

    David Odo, Tanya SheehanCHAPTER2021

  • Photography Performing Humor and Photography and Humour

    Tanya SheehanARTICLEHistory of Photography2019

    What is so funny about photography? This question motivated several surveys of photographic humour in the late twentieth century, from Rolf H. Krauss’s Die Fotografie in der Karikatur (1978) to Hei

  • Photography and Migration

    Tanya SheehanBOOKPhotography and Migration2018

  • Confronting Taboo

    Tanya SheehanARTICLEAmerican Art2014

    Among the most celebrated African American artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence is known for depicting black life in post-Depression Harlem and exploring social and political realities through abstraction. Scholars have noted regular overlaps in the subject matter of Lawrence’s paintings and that of contemporary documentary photographs, especially the images produced by white photographers under the Farm Security Administration. And y…

  • Comical Conflations

    Tanya SheehanARTICLEPhotography and Culture2011References: 12

    Comical associations between the science of photography and ideas about race were common on both sides of the Atlantic in the decades after the medium's invention. Some humorists observed that no bourgeois sitter would welcome the sight of his “negative” or blackened self; others illustrated the cosmetic character of race by depicting the effects of photographic chemicals on human skin. This essay takes these racial jokes seriously by reading the…

  • Seeing THROUGH Race by Martin A. Berger

    Open AccessTanya SheehanARTICLEArt History2007

  • African American Vernacular Photography

    Tanya SheehanARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    “African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection.” International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Temporary exhibition, Dec. 9, 2005–Feb. 26, 2006. 765 sq. ft. Brian Wallis, curator. Internet: brief description of exhibition, photographs, museum information, online store, http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.1288081/k.85A7/Daniel_Cowin.htm. In “African American Vernacu…

  • The Critical Eye

    Open AccessTanya SheehanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2006References: 1

    The Critical Eye:Reading Commercial Photography Tanya Sheehan (bio) The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929. By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 344 pages. $49.95 (cloth). Thirty years ago, Marsha Peters and Bernard Mergen delivered a call to action in the pages of American Quarterly, urging readers to reconsider the use of photographs in American studies.1…

  • Facio, Sara

    Erika Billeter, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Álvarez Bravo, Manuel

    Elizabeth Ferrer, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Korda (Díaz Gutiérrez), Alberto

    Erika Billeter, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Meyer, Pedro

    Erika Billeter, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Charnay, (Claude-Joseph-)Désiré

    Patricia Strathern, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Corrales, Raúl

    Erika Billeter, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Photomontage

    David Evans, Tanya Sheehan et al.CHAPTER2003