Amy Lyford is Professor of Art History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She is the author of two books: Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (University of California Press, 2007) and Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation: Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism, 1930-1950 (University of California Press, forthcoming 2013). Her current research and teaching interests include the history of photography; modern sculpture and architecture; the visual cultures of California and Hawaii; and issues of race, gender, national identity, and politics in modernist practice.