Alexander Nemerov

Books⁵

The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s Alexander Nemerov
A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States

“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News

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Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now Asma Naeem
The first book highlighting the historical roots and contemporary implications of the silhouette as an American art form
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World War I and American Art Edited by Robert Cozzolino, Anne Classen Knutson, and David M. Lubin
The first major account of how American artists responded to World War I
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Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine Alexander Nemerov
A personal reassessment of Lewis Hine's iconic, haunting photos of child workers in the early twentieth century
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Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s Alexander Nemerov
A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940s
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Ideas¹

A camper reads in their open tent while facing out towards the woods

How to see the world, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Sitting before a lake one summer, Nathaniel Hawthorne took a newspaper from his pocket and began to read. His object was not to catch up on the news but to play a trick—to lull nature into a false sense of security, to make it think he was not percei... Read More