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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Patricia A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--United States.

Art and society.

Social conflict in art.

Values.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Seeing high and low

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]

Summary:

This novel anthology explores the historic boundaries between "high" (elite) art and other media traditionally defined as "low" by presenting thirteen case studies on visual culture's engagement with social controversies throughout American history.

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.

Notes:

"An Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520241878

0520241886

OCLC:

61362718

Publisher Number:

9780520241886

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