In This Issue: Unsettled Imaginations

Braiding together a contentious intellectual history of Philadelphia in the early twentieth century and concepts of collecting, Jeremy Braddock examines the development of Albert Barnes's synthetic perspective through his connections to European psychoanalysis and the pragmatism of William James and John Dewey, as well as the unique role Barnes played in the promotion of modernism in the United States. Kimberly Camp, the Barnes Foundation's first and current executive director, describes the project to organize the institution's extraordinary archives, while offering thoughtful insights on the challenges of scholarship on Barnes's remarkable legacy. Analyzing Dashiell's work from multiple directions, author Alison Mairi Syme offers an unsettling and sometimes amusing genealogy of art history, sexuality, and identity.