| Visual Studies graduate student Mary Trent has been awarded a highly competitive 2009 Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art for her dissertation-in-progress Innocence Reproduced: Girlhood in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger in which she examines the theme of girlhood in the work of two American artists who worked on the edges of dominant artistic movements from the 1930s-1960s. Trent argues that Cornell and Darger use references to girls and girlish domestic crafts to express an alternative modern masculinity focused on exploring the possibilities for individual imagination in a mass-mediated culture. |