American visual culture
By: Mark Rawlinson.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845202170; 9781845202163
Subjects: Arts, American; Arts and society -- United States; Visual communication; National characteristics, American, in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visualizing various American landscapes; title: Cultural anxieties I: all consuming culture; title: Cultural anxieties II: a case of black and white; title: From a comfortable distance: visual culture and war; title: Crime and punishment: mug shots and crime scenes; title: Visualizing sex in america; title: The trouble with kitsch: highs and lows in American art and visual culture.