Karal Ann Marling (born November 5, 1943) is an American cultural historian and writer.[1] A professor emerita of the University of Minnesota, she is an American studies scholar with a special focus on the visual arts. The New York Times described her as a "keen-eyed critic of American popular culture."[2] One book reviewer described her as a stylistic and intellectual heir to both Erma Bombeck and Tom Wolfe.[3]
Originally from the East Coast, she earned a Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College before she came to Minnesota in 1977 to teach.[4] She has since become an acknowledged expert on her adopted home state, including on the cultural significance of state fairs (including the Minnesota State Fair) and shopping malls (including the Mall of America).[3]
Marking has written 19 full-length non-fiction books.
^"Interview with Karal Ann Marling, Hennepin County, Minnesota". collection.mndigital.org. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^Basinger, Jeanine (2000-12-03). "Silent, Holy, Calm, Bright, Etc". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
KaralAnnMarling (2006). Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses. Harvard University Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-674-02226-3. Karal Ann...
of a decorated evergreen Christmas tree in America. Art historian KaralAnnMarling called Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, shorn of their royal trappings...
on to become a part of the Whitney's founding collection. Scholar KaralAnnMarling notes that Edward Hopper's work "is a prelude to the wakeful coffee...
City Upon a Hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Colonial Revival KaralAnnMarling, George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture...
Eisenhower, who endorsed a color which, according to cultural historian KaralAnnMarling, was called "Mamie Pink". Given that the Chanel suit was a strong...
Washington's character. Art historian and Washington iconographer KaralAnnMarling said that while The Making of the Prefident 1789 maintained an "air...
which the painter's "color came back to life". The art historian KaralAnnMarling finds the Great Pyramid of Giza to be the "primary analogue" to the...
sure that the manufactured audience got all the jokes I directed." KaralAnnMarling, professor of American studies and art history at the University of...
North: Royal Canadian Mounted Police: The Potlatch Collection, by KaralAnnMarling, Afton Historical Society Press, 2003 Glenn C. Nelson: A Tribute Exhibition...
Venus and Adonis, while the art historian KaralAnnMarling described the father as "Michelangelesque"; Marling also likened the mother and infant to a...
models for the Disney theme parks and their attractions. Professor KaralAnnMarling curated the exhibit and wrote the principal essay for the accompanying...
of Modern Art, New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. KaralAnnMarling; Helen A. Harrison (1976). 7 American women: the depression decade :...
Mason, Bobbie Ann (2007). Elvis Presley: A Life. Penguin Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-14-303889-4. Retrieved 2010-07-01. Marling, KaralAnn (Autumn 1993)...
Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday (2009) by KaralAnnMarling The Americans: The Democratic Experience (2010) by Daniel J. Boorstin...
Illinois. 1941 "The Bathers", Kennebunkport, Maine. Presumed lost. KaralAnnMarling in her narrative of the controversy surrounding the painting stated...
ISBN 978-0674048836. Extract archived online; search "Famous" for cited pp. 72-73: Marling, KaralAnn. "Hyphenated Culture: Painting by Numbers in the New Age of Leisure"...
1966; (368 pages); Notice n° : FRBNF31766545 Gabriel P. Weisberg, KaralAnnMarling; Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture; Rutgers University Press...
He's going to either rape her or scalp her or both". Art historian KaralAnnMarling describes the figures of the women as "clearly female, to be sure...
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