Seeing High and Low Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture

Name: Seeing High and Low Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9780520241886

ISBN-10: 0520241886

ISBN-13: 9780520241886

Edition: 2006

Authors: Patricia Johnston, Jeffrey Belnap, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Patricia M. Burnham, Sarah Burns

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This cutting-edge volume presents a sweeping view of the evolution of visual culture in the United States through fifteen absorbing case studies by top scholars of American art that explore visual culture's engagement with social controversy. Written especially for this work in lively and accessible language, the essays illuminate what visual forms--including traditional crafts, sculpture, painting and graphic arts, even domestic and museum interiors--can tell us about social conditions, how visual culture has contributed to social values, and how concepts of high and low art have developed. The only work on visual culture to span American history from the early republic to the present and…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 353
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Educating for Distinction? Art, Hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group




Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: Social Tensions in an Ideal World




Cartoons in Color: David Gilmour Blythe's Very Uncivil War




"Ain't I a Woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the Iconography of Emancipation




Cultural Racism: Resistance and Accommodation in the Civil War Art of




Custer's Last Stand: High-Low on Old and New Frontiers




Reenvisioning "This Well-Wooded Land"




At Home with Mona Lisa: Consumers and Commercial Visual Culture, 1880-1920




Gustav Stickley's Designs for the Home: An Activist Aesthetic for the Upwardly Mobile




Handicraft, Native American Art, and Modern Indian Identity




Alone on the Sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's Photography, 1892-1913




The Colors of Modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney Brothers, and the Relationship between Art and Industry in the 1920s




The Invisibility of Race in Modernist Representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk




Caricaturing the Gringo Tourist: Diego Rivera's Folkloric and Touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday Afternoon in Xochimilco




The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict



Contributors


List of Illustrations


Index