Seeing high and low
Subtitle: representing social conflict in American visual culture
By: edited by Patricia Johnston.
Contributors: Johnston, Patricia A., 1954-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Art and society -- United States; Social conflict in art; Values
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An Ahmanson Murphy fine arts book."
Table of contents: title: Educating for distinction? Art, hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase group / David Steinberg; title: Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: social tensions in an ideal world / Patricia Johnston; title: Cartoons in color: David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war / Sarah Burns; title: "Ain't I a woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the iconography of emancipation / Melissa Dabakis; title: Cultural racism: resistance and accommodation in the Civil War art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast / Patricia Hills; title: Custer's last stand: high-low on old and new frontiers / Patricia M. Burnham; title: Reenvisioning "This well-wooded land" / Janice Simon; title: At home with Mona Lisa: consumers and commercial visual culture, 1880/1920 / Katharine Martinez; title: Gustav Stickley's designs for the home: an activist aesthetic for the upwardly mobile / Arlette Klaric; title: Handicraft, Native American art, and modern Indian identity / Elizabeth Hutchinson; title: Alone on the sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892/1913 / Joanne Lukitsh; title: The colors of modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney brothers, and the relationship between art and industry in the 1920s / Regina Lee Blaszczyk; title: The invisibility of race in modernist representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk / Donna M. Cassidy; title: Caricaturing the Gringo tourist: Diego Rivera's folkloric and touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday afternoon in Xochimilco / Jeffrey Belnap; title: The Norman Rockwell Museum and the representation of social conflict / Alan Wallach.