Seeing high & low : representing social conflict in American visual culture

Contents: -
1. Educating for distinction? Art, hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase group / David Steinberg -- 2. Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: social tensions in an ideal world / Patricia Johnston -- 3. Cartoons in color: David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war / Sarah Burns -- 4. "Ain't I a woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the iconography of emancipation / Melissa Dabakis -- 5. Cultural racism: resistance and accommodation in the Civil War art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast / Patricia Hills -- 6. Custer's last stand: high-low on old and new frontiers / Patricia M. Burnham -- 7. Reenvisioning "This well-wooded land" / Janice Simon -- 7. At home with Mona Lisa: consumers and commercial visual culture, 1880-1920 / Katharine Martinez -- 8. Gustav Stickley's designs for the home: an activist aesthetic for the upwardly mobile / Arlette Klaric -- 9. Handicraft, Native American art, and modern Indian identity / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- 10. Alone on the sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892-1913 / Joanne Lukitsh -- 11. The colors of modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney brothers, and the relationship between art and industry in the 1920s / Regina Lee Blaszczyk -- 12. The invisibility of race in modernist representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk / Donna M. Cassidy -- 13. Caricaturing the Gringo tourist: Diego Rivera's Folkloric and touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday afternoon in Xochimilco / Jeffrey Belnap -- 14. The Norman Rockwell Museum and the representation of social conflict / Alan Wallach - Index.