Patricia Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 6014989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2054-9207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
It Makes My Heart Smile When I Hear Them Say, ‘Hi Grandpa, We’re Home!’”
Before colonization, Indigenous child protection looked like an interdependent community. Indigenous knowledges and relational actions kept all within its fold safe and well. Colonial dispossession of land, degradation of subsistence rights, boarding schools, ongoing child removal, capitalism, and systems of oppression attempted to disconnect Indigenous peoples from their language, lands, ceremonial practices, stories, dances, songs, family, comm…
Introduction to Social Services, Supports, and Well-Being in Arctic Canada and Beyond
Stronger When We Are Together
Drawing on research with Inuit mothers from Arviat, Nunavut, this article explores child welfare social services in Nunavut, Canada. Since its inception in the 1950s, the state’s model for child welfare has always been at odds with Nunavummiut life, culture, and beliefs. This article highlights how the design and execution of model of child welfare has provided the majority of decision-making power to Qallunaat (non-Inuit). Through an examination…
I” is for “Italian”
Italian “image peddlers” sold small plaster sculptural reproductions door to door in the United States during the nineteenth century. Representations of these street vendors illuminate the histories of the art reproductions market, emigration of the Italian Catholic artisans who produced and sold classical and Renaissance figurines, and the Protestant middle-class consumers who purchased them. Using print images from abecedaries (alphabet books) …
Stuck in the Ways of the South
Based on qualitative research that explored the experiences of social workers in Nunavut’s child welfare system, this paper examines the current approach to child welfare in light of a critical report issued by Canada’s Auditor General in March 2011. Through a discussion of meritocracy, this study highlights the problematic approach to child welfare used by the Government of Nunavut, particularly in their reliance on Qallunaat or nonInuit social …
The Contradiction of Helping
Significant differences in privilege, material resources, and decision-making power exist between Inuit and Qallunaat (or non-Inuit) in Canada’s Nunavut Territory. Holding serious implications, the disproportionate advantages afforded Qallunaat require an examination of the relationship between social work and the State (as employer). The role of credentialism and professionalism in the maintenance of neocolonial relations reveals a professional …
Cara deum suboles
The tragedies of Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil's Georgics anticipate their respective elevations in the afterlife
Modern Man
Book Review| March 01 2011 Modern Man Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens The Phillips CollectionWashington, DC October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens By Wendy A. Grossman International Arts and Artists, 2009184 pp./$39.95 (sb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston PATRICIA JOHNSTON is a professor of Art History at Salem State University in Massachusetts and editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing…
Photo Economics
Essay| April 01 2006 Photo Economics The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929, by Elspeth H. Brown, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 344 pp./$49.95 (hb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is a professor of art history at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Cul…
Governance and insecurity in West Africa
Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times
Review| December 01 2000 Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5-April 30, 2000Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, by Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman and Jenna Webster, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, 340 pp./$45.00 (sb) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C…
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Visual Piety
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
Brady’s Nation
Review| October 01 1998 Brady’s Nation Mathew Brady and the Image of History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1997-January 4, 1998 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 22-April 15, 1998 International Center of Photography/Midtown, New York, New York, June 12-September 6, 1998Mathew Brady and the Image of History, by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley, S…
Virtual Resistance
Review| June 01 1997 Virtual Resistance Anxious Libraries: Photography and the Fate of Reading Photographic Resource Center at Boston UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1996-January 31, 1997 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is Associate Professor of Art History at Salem State College and is on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Goo…
Real Fantasies
During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work--which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United States--has not received the attention it deserves. At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings a…
Indigenous Visions
Essay| June 01 1995 Indigenous Visions: An Interview with Carlota Duarte Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is an art historian. Her book Real Fantasies: Edward Stephen’s Advertising Photographs will be published next year by the University of California Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (1): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.1.8 Views Icon Views Articl…
Class Eye
Review| March 01 1993 Class Eye The Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego guest curated by Leah Oilman Photographic Resource CenterBoston, Massachusetts Nov. 20-Jan. 24 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is chair of the art department at Salem State College. Her book, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photographs is forthcoming from the Univers…
A Scenic View of Reading
When someone says, That reminds me of the Neil Simon movie where ... and continues to describe particular circumstance and dialogue, common experience is shared. A message is received. Speaker and listener have mutual understanding of situation. The scene has done its job; it has organized experience in such way to act as metaphor that links real experience to another kind of understanding. What is often forgotten, however, is that the scene from…
Joyce Kozloff
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Visual Piety
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
A Scenic View of Reading
When someone says, That reminds me of the Neil Simon movie where ... and continues to describe particular circumstance and dialogue, common experience is shared. A message is received. Speaker and listener have mutual understanding of situation. The scene has done its job; it has organized experience in such way to act as metaphor that links real experience to another kind of understanding. What is often forgotten, however, is that the scene from…
Joyce Kozloff
A Scenic View of Reading
When someone says, That reminds me of the Neil Simon movie where ... and continues to describe particular circumstance and dialogue, common experience is shared. A message is received. Speaker and listener have mutual understanding of situation. The scene has done its job; it has organized experience in such way to act as metaphor that links real experience to another kind of understanding. What is often forgotten, however, is that the scene from…
Class Eye
Review| March 01 1993 Class Eye The Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego guest curated by Leah Oilman Photographic Resource CenterBoston, Massachusetts Nov. 20-Jan. 24 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is chair of the art department at Salem State College. Her book, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photographs is forthcoming from the Univers…
Indigenous Visions
Essay| June 01 1995 Indigenous Visions: An Interview with Carlota Duarte Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is an art historian. Her book Real Fantasies: Edward Stephen’s Advertising Photographs will be published next year by the University of California Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (1): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.1.8 Views Icon Views Articl…
Virtual Resistance
Review| June 01 1997 Virtual Resistance Anxious Libraries: Photography and the Fate of Reading Photographic Resource Center at Boston UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1996-January 31, 1997 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is Associate Professor of Art History at Salem State College and is on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Goo…
Real Fantasies
During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work--which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United States--has not received the attention it deserves. At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings a…
Brady’s Nation
Review| October 01 1998 Brady’s Nation Mathew Brady and the Image of History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1997-January 4, 1998 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 22-April 15, 1998 International Center of Photography/Midtown, New York, New York, June 12-September 6, 1998Mathew Brady and the Image of History, by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley, S…
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Visual Piety
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times
Review| December 01 2000 Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5-April 30, 2000Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, by Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman and Jenna Webster, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, 340 pp./$45.00 (sb) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C…
Governance and insecurity in West Africa
Photo Economics
Essay| April 01 2006 Photo Economics The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929, by Elspeth H. Brown, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 344 pp./$49.95 (hb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is a professor of art history at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Cul…
Modern Man
Book Review| March 01 2011 Modern Man Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens The Phillips CollectionWashington, DC October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens By Wendy A. Grossman International Arts and Artists, 2009184 pp./$39.95 (sb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston PATRICIA JOHNSTON is a professor of Art History at Salem State University in Massachusetts and editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing…
Cara deum suboles
The tragedies of Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil's Georgics anticipate their respective elevations in the afterlife
The Contradiction of Helping
Significant differences in privilege, material resources, and decision-making power exist between Inuit and Qallunaat (or non-Inuit) in Canada’s Nunavut Territory. Holding serious implications, the disproportionate advantages afforded Qallunaat require an examination of the relationship between social work and the State (as employer). The role of credentialism and professionalism in the maintenance of neocolonial relations reveals a professional …
Stuck in the Ways of the South
Based on qualitative research that explored the experiences of social workers in Nunavut’s child welfare system, this paper examines the current approach to child welfare in light of a critical report issued by Canada’s Auditor General in March 2011. Through a discussion of meritocracy, this study highlights the problematic approach to child welfare used by the Government of Nunavut, particularly in their reliance on Qallunaat or nonInuit social …
I” is for “Italian”
Italian “image peddlers” sold small plaster sculptural reproductions door to door in the United States during the nineteenth century. Representations of these street vendors illuminate the histories of the art reproductions market, emigration of the Italian Catholic artisans who produced and sold classical and Renaissance figurines, and the Protestant middle-class consumers who purchased them. Using print images from abecedaries (alphabet books) …
Introduction to Social Services, Supports, and Well-Being in Arctic Canada and Beyond
Stronger When We Are Together
Drawing on research with Inuit mothers from Arviat, Nunavut, this article explores child welfare social services in Nunavut, Canada. Since its inception in the 1950s, the state’s model for child welfare has always been at odds with Nunavummiut life, culture, and beliefs. This article highlights how the design and execution of model of child welfare has provided the majority of decision-making power to Qallunaat (non-Inuit). Through an examination…
It Makes My Heart Smile When I Hear Them Say, ‘Hi Grandpa, We’re Home!’”
Before colonization, Indigenous child protection looked like an interdependent community. Indigenous knowledges and relational actions kept all within its fold safe and well. Colonial dispossession of land, degradation of subsistence rights, boarding schools, ongoing child removal, capitalism, and systems of oppression attempted to disconnect Indigenous peoples from their language, lands, ceremonial practices, stories, dances, songs, family, comm…
Art (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (6 works) · Icon (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works)