Framing America: A Social History of American Art Book

	Preface	9
1	Art and Conquest	13
	The Spanish and the Aztecs	16
	The Northern Territories of New Spain	22
	France Bringing the Faith: the Northeast	41
	The Exploration of the Mississippi and Mississippian Culture	49
	A Protestant Presence in America	54
	The Art and Architecture of the Northern British and Dutch Colonies	58
	Products of the Needle and the Chisel	66
	Foreign Wars and Domestic Unrest	69
2	Defining America	73
	Representing the Revolution and Its Aftermath	74
	Presidential Poses: Images of George Washington	83
	Architectural Symbols of a New Nation	93
	An Architecture of Discipline	98
	Nationhood and Native Americans	104
	The Schooling of the Nation's Artists: Samuel F. B. Morse and the National Academy of Design	112
	The Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Production of American Culture	118
3	Nature and Nation	129
	Nature and the Sacred in Native American Art	131
	God, Nature, and the Rise of Landscape Painting	134
	Thomas Cole, Federalism, and The Course of Empire	139
	Edward Hicks and The Peaceable Kingdom	144
	Landscape Painting at Mid-Century: Frederic Edwin Church and the Luminists	146
	Native Americans as Nature	152
	Depicting the "Looks and Modes" of Native American Life	155
	Nature Transformed: Settling the Landscape	163
	Woman as Nature: The Nude, the Mother, and the Cook	171
	Nature Morte: Still Life and the Art of Deception	175
4	A Nation at War	185
	The War between the United States and Mexico	186
	Mexican Culture as American Culture	191
	Prelude to the Civil War: Representing African Americans and Slavery	197
	Race and the Civil War	204
	Images of Reconstruction	211
	Monuments to Freedom	217
	Native Americans in the Popular Press: Harper's Weekly and the Washita River Massacre	224
	Encyclopedias of Experience: Native American Ledger Art	226
	The End of the Ghost Dance	232
	The Hampton Institute and Lessons in American History	236
5	Work and Art Redefined	239
	One Hundred Years of Independence: Taking Stock of America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition	242
	Images of Workers	245
	Celebrating the New Male Professionals: Portraits by Thomas Eakins	252
	The Female Body and the Rights of Women: the "Declaration of Sentiments" and Hiram Powers's The Greek Slave	258
	Domestic Culture and Cultural Production	260
	The Feminine Ideal and the Rise of Aestheticism	269
	Images of the Particular: Portraiture and "Trompe l'Oeil" Painting	275
	The Battle over Public Space	282
	The End of a Century: Art and Architecture and the World's Columbian Exposition	288
6	The Machine, the Primitive, and the Modern	301
	Realism and the Ashcan School	304
	Modernism and the Avant-Garde	317
	World War I and the Art of Reproduction	322
	Modernism, Gender, and Sexuality	327
	Escape to Mexico	337
	Mexico in America: Imaging the American Southwest	343
	The Harlem Renaissance	350
7	Art for the People, Art Against Fascism	363
	A New Deal for Art	365
	Modernist Architecture, Domestic Design, and Planned Communities	378
	Alternative Visions: Urban Life and the Industrial Worker	381
	Alternative Visions: The Corporate View of Industrial America	391
	Alternative Visions: Women at Work in the City	399
	Alternative Visions: Rural America	404
	Art Against Fascism: The Popular Front and the American Artists' Congress	413
	The War at Home: Japanese American Internment and American Patriotism	416
	Social Surrealism, Abstraction, and Democracy	419
8	From Cold War to Culture Wars	429
	Gestures of Liberation: Abstract Art as the New American Art	432
	Pastiche and Parody: Another Take on the Real	445
	Minimal Forms	456
	Popular Art, Pop Art, and Consumer Culture	464
	An Art of Protest: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War	473
	The Personal is Political: Feminist Art of the 1970s	483
	Public Art and Public Interest	491
	Is Less More? Re-evaluating Modernism in Architecture	496
	Postmodernism and Art	502
	The Culture Wars	512
	Timeline	521
	Bibliography	526
	Websites	541
	Acknowledgments for Illustrations	542
	Index	546