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Seeing high & low : representing social conflict in American visual culture / edited by Patricia Johnston.

Other author/creatorJohnston, Patricia A., 1954-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Descriptionvii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Variant title Seeing high and low
Contents Educating for distinction? Art, hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase group / David Steinberg -- Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: social tensions in an ideal world / Patricia Johnston -- Cartoons in color: David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war / Sarah Burns -- "Ain't I a woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the iconography of emancipation / Melissa Dabakis -- Cultural racism: resistance and accommodation in the Civil War art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast / Patricia Hills -- Custer's last stand: high-low on old and new frontiers / Patricia M. Burnham -- Reenvisioning "This well-wooded land" / Janice Simon -- At home with Mona Lisa: consumers and commercial visual culture, 1880-1920 / Katharine Martinez -- Gustav Stickley's designs for the home: an activist aesthetic for the upwardly mobile / Arlette Klaric -- Handicraft, Native American art, and modern Indian identity / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Alone on the sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892-1913 / Joanne Lukitsh -- The colors of modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney brothers, and the relationship between art and industry in the 1920s / Regina Lee Blaszczyk -- The invisibility of race in modernist representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk / Donna M. Cassidy -- Caricaturing the Gringo tourist: Diego Rivera's Folkloric and touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday afternoon in Xochimilco / Jeffrey Belnap -- The Norman Rockwell Museum and the representation of social conflict / Alan Wallach.
General note"An Ahmansona-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005023951
ISBN0520241878 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520241886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780520241886

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