Baseball, Apple Pie, and Burlesque Queens: Nationalism in Walt Kuhn's Portraits of Showgirls.

The article explores the interwar debate over nationality and modernism by examining the writing and art of Walt Kuhn in the U.S. Recently, scholars of American art have aimed to dismantle the division of interwar modernists and realists, seeing it as a binary hangover from modern historians, and are more concerned with pointing to the many similarities between the two camps rather than their differences. Citing such commonalities as a fascination with folk culture and a quest for authenticity, scholars now acknowledge that most artists working in the United States during the war are competing for the American identity.