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The article focuses on the autobiographical notes by painter Gerald Murphy from the papers of curator Douglas MacAgy. On May 17, 1962, MacAgy wrote to Murphy and requested him to expand and clarify certain points of biography and work. MacAgy's inquiries and Murphy's notes are contained in the Douglas MacAgy Papers at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. An excerpt from Murphy's October 24, 1962 set of notes commenting on MacAgy's summary of his production is provided. According to the article, Murphy's numbered answers correspond to numbers in MacAgy's typescript.

The article describes Walter Pater's distinctive approach to history in some detail by interpreting his book "Marius the Epicurean." The author also examines the sources of some of Pater's ideas, and explores his unusual employment of the imaginary portrait as the form for the work. The paper also discusses the bearing which Pater considered historical writing to have upon the present. It argues that book by Pater is not a concealed autobiography, except in the most trivial sense, but the most extended of his essays in cultural history.

The article explains that the Archives of American Art acquired the personal papers of nineteenth century American landscape painter Worthington Whittredge, which include a handwritten version of his autobiography. Specific passages reveal the artist's reactions to people, places, and events in his milieu. Whittredge's artistic masterpieces include the pencil-and-ink-wash drawing "Uri Rothstock", the charcoal-and-pencil-on-paper drawing "Hartz Mountains, Germany," and the pencil-and-ink-wash drawing "Subiaco". Whittredge's papers with the Archive are complemented by 150 drawings and watercolor paintings.

In the 1960s, conservationist Aldo Leopold noted: "One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." Decades later, activist Greta Thunberg interpellated world leaders: "I want you to act as if our house were on fire. Because it is." Together, these quotes capture two central features of environmental activism. First, despite growing public concern, environmental loss—including more-than-human deaths, species extinctions, devastated ecosystems—is grieved only by environmental scientists, activists, and witnesses. Second, they highlight the temporal gulf separating those who despair at mounting environmental degradation, and those who, trapped in a "business-as-usual" temporality, remain indifferent. While the environmental humanities and eco-psychology have analysed these phenomena, political theorists are lagging behind. This paper addresses this gap by bringing theories of representation and chronopolitics to bear on a flurry of recently published memoirs chronicling activists' emotional and temporal alienation. I read these as self-authorized representative claims aiming, first, to summon the already-grieving into a self-aware constituency and second, to bridge what P.J. Brendese has termed the "segregated temporalities" of hegemonic and environmentalists' time. I argue that these texts illuminate a key aspect of representation in the context of environmental crisis: that it can be primarily understood as grounded in a chronopolitical conflict over competing understandings of time. As concrete illustrations, I examine Daniel Sherrell's Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World and Danielle Celermajer's Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures" by Kelly Wisecup explores the ways in which Indigenous peoples actively produced, shaped, and read archives in accordance with their own histories and historicisms. Wisecup examines various genres of Indigenous compilation, such as recipes, extracts, albums, word lists, and accounts, and analyzes how these compilations interacted with colonial archives. The book challenges the reliance on literacies informed by colonial archives and highlights the importance of recognizing and respecting Indigenous perspectives and knowledge. Wisecup's work emphasizes the continuities between past and present and the power of Indigenous compilations to orient readers towards Native futurities. [Extracted from the article]

Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson used similar generic strategies, borrowed from the mid-century petition, when composing biographies of their husbands, The Life of William Cavendish and Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. While both authors use their prefaces to frame their biographies as dispassionate recitations of historical fact, rather than defending a purely documentary regime, such pronouncements obliquely prompt readers to search for deviations from the authors' biographic agendas. This essay will argue that Cavendish and Hutchinson used the biographies of their husbands to disguise and promote political critiques that ultimately reveal the autocratic impulses of Charles II in the early years of the Restoration. Such critiques, I propose, are grounded in the complementary self-presentations of the authors. Informed by their common experience as petitioners of unfriendly bureaucracies, Cavendish and Hutchinson style themselves as advocates for constitutional monarchy and particularly the preservation of rights and privileges due to English citizens. Finally, by examining the intersection of biography and autobiography, petition and legal testimony, this essay challenges the scholarly tendency to assign highly gendered critical frameworks to Memoirs and Life of William , which are more likely to be described as wifely romances than as political treatises. [L.D.F.] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the work of Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino, who focuses on the representation of black women in Brazilian society. Paulino's art explores the historical and ongoing marginalization of Afro-Brazilians, particularly black women, and challenges the social hierarchies and stereotypes that have been imposed on them. She uses various mediums, such as sewing, collage, drawing, video, and installation, to reclaim agency and dignity for black women and to challenge the notion of racial democracy in Brazil. The article also highlights the historical legacies of slavery and scientific racism in Brazil, which have perpetuated discrimination and disparities against the black population. [Extracted from the article]

The dramatic work of Lady Rachel Fane in the 1620's has been disregarded even by those scholars who have attended to the plays which her brother Mildmay Fane later wrote and staged at Apethorpe Hall. A number of the entertainments which Rachel Fane scripted for household performance there survive in manuscript. One of these texts, here published for the first time, is particularly interesting for its unequivocal evidence that it was performed. Situating the text in the author's personal and familial narratives, the introduction identifies its date, occasion and performers and notes the scaling-down of the form and conventions of a courtly masque. The text is also discussed as material for performance in the physical circumstances of a Stuart country house in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the autobiography of Will Provine, a historian of modern biology. His background and interest in biology; Schools attended; Works and achievements; Lessons learned while working in the history of modern biology.

The article presents news briefs regarding the Midwestern region of the Archives of American Art. The institution has acquired the papers of Chicago artist Charles Dalhgreen that include his handwritten autobiography. Helen McCabe Cantine has donated several Ivan Albright letters to the Archives. The institution has also acquired the papers of Chicago artist Macena Barton.

This article focuses on comments related to the article "Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India." Now, "totality" might seem to be an inappropriate term to use in relation to governmentality, given the latter's diffuse nature. With its emergence, government can be conceptualized as concerned with the welfare of the population rather than of the prince. The distinctive intimacy of this totality is brought out in researchers stress on immanence rather than transcendence. This concept of governmentality breaks with liberal autobiographies of power, of which the Weberian account is only an especially classical version. In this latter account, the consolidation of modern power involves a move from intimacy to anonymous trust and from dispersed and fragmentary forms of patrimonial power to the transcendental totality of bureaucratic power. The forest councils have been instituted because the state cannot control the forests.

I use interactional sociolinguistics to explore how participants in a thirteen-month-long executive master's program focused on leadership navigate leadership identities within the classroom, focusing on narratives of professional experience. As I will argue, narrators claim a professional identity semiotically by constructing a corporation and then claiming a position within or relative to it. Whereas in a related project I explore such work through the concept "discursive othering," in this project I focus on narratives. Specifically, I examine how agency is accomplished in these narratives at several levels: first, within the world of the story, second, at the interactional level, and, finally, at the intertextual level. Ultimately, I will consider what implications all of these processes have on the discursive construction of leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of a panel discussion on comics and autobiography held on May 19, 2012 with panelists including Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green and Carol Tyler moderated by Deborah Nelson. Topics discussed included Green's view that comic form provides one a multifaceted view of presenting oneself as a specimen and how Gloeckner was compelled to write about things that happened to her and the influences within the field of comics and in art forms outside and around.

An exploration of one of the most common but least studied early modern forms of life-writing, the annotated almanac, is long overdue. Printed almanacs were often interleaved with blank pages, onto which readers added notes of their activities: journeys; illnesses; resolutions. By examining a number of annotated almanacs, and by focusing in particular on the Civil War almanacs of Lady Isabella Twysden, this essay examines the relationship between printed almanac and manuscript annotations, and the connection between annotated almanacs and those categories which organise recent critical discussions of life-writing: identity, subjectivity, autobiography, diary, self. Materials added to almanacs were often later transferred to other texts: diarists often generated a life through a process of shunting material from text to text, starting with an almanac, expanding records with each movement. The production of diaries was less about directly transcribing lived experience, and more the result of revising prior texts. Many features of diaries can be explained through reference back to the almanac as a first or early site where notes on a life began. This founding compositional moment shaped later diaries: the expectations the almanac created, the subjects and vocabularies it induced, informed later written lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the publication of the first complete edition of the book "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography," by Charles and Jules Renouard. It explores how the editors of the book collate the memoirs of Benjamin Franklin which are not written all at once. The article also traces the bizarre history of editions of autobiographies of Franklin.

One of the most important unrecognized texts in the early history of autobiography in William Baldwin's "A Mirror for Magistrates" (1559). It is a text replete with people talking about themselves, both in the ghosts' tragedies and the frame narrative about the writers. Additionally, several of the writers associated with it would go on to produce some of the very few examples of sixteenth century self-writing. Once published, "A Mirror" prompted in its readers a flood of texts still more autobiographical than itself. The essay considers "A Mirror's" implications for the study of the earliest autobiographical writing, of authors, and of the relation of both to theories of "subjectivity." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the memoir of Edward Said. Towards the end of his life, Edward and Mariam went to India, where he received two doctorates. His account of the trip to me did not seem to come from the friend who knew my deep and little-advertised concern for social justice in India. Early on in his friendship, looking back upon himself critically, he had described himself as a "playboy" before he woke up to the question of Palestine. Now that he is dead, people about whom he was at best dubious, and mere sycophants, tell people about the political discussions he had with them. The celebrated dead belong to everyone.

That article comments on a fictitious narrative written by Euhemerus of Messene called the Sacred History (Hiera Anagraphe) in which he claimed to have sailed to Panchaea, an island beyond Arabia on the Ocean, and there discovered a stele on which was written the story of the time when the gods were mortal men and rulers of the whole earth. Ever since, there have been arguments over whether Euhemerus was an atheist or a revolutionary philosopher, whether he was an historian or a theologian, and whether he wrote in response to the political, or the religious reality of his day.

The author first became aware that photographs are powerful storytelling devices and instruments of memory when he was growing up in north Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. His family had black dolls and images of black life hanging on our walls or placed on the mantel. As he grew older, his interest in the“ visual” grew and led to a career with multiple dimensions as teacher, artist, and art historian. Thinking of his family experiences, he wanted to record with a camera the work of the VISTA volunteers in Huntington, West Virginia, and the families they assisted. As an educator, he noticed that no textbooks offered a critical discussion of photographs that depict black subjectsor photographs made by African Americans. Most of author's published works offer interpretations of the generic photographic history, African American art, and genderstudies.

Discusses the unique operations of memory and collective identification that proliferate around food in particular contexts of the radical displacement of exile. Selection of cookbook-memoirs by or about people who have found themselves in various situations of displacement and exile from the Middle East; Emergence of new performances and presentations of identification.

Examines the issues of gender, race and social status explored in the autobiographical book 'Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands' written by mixed-race Jamaican nurse< Mary Jane Grant Seacole in the late 1800s. Discussion of the role of race and colonialism in the book's creation; Presentation of Seacole's enthusiastic response to colonialism according to scholars.

The article reports that the Archives of American Art has boosted its oral history collection with several items, specifically, a tape-recorded interview of painter and art school teacher Francis Speight, and family papers that belonged to engraver James D. Smillie and landscape painter George H. Smillie. James D. Smillie's autobiography presents a description of an engraver's training and career. Speight spoke about his teaching stint at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. A photograph is presented of a George H. Smillie masterpiece entitled "From Denver to Gray's Peak".