Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture Book

	Introduction : a critical overview of visual culture studies	1
1	Educating for distinction? : art, hierarchy, and Charles Wilson Peale's Staircase group	25
2	Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre : social tensions in an ideal world	42
3	Cartoons in color : David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war	66
4	"Ain't I a woman?" : Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the iconography of emancipation	84
5	Cultural racism : resistance and accommodation in the Civil War art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast	103
6	Custer's last stand : high-low on old and new frontiers	124
7	Reenvisioning "this well-wooden land"	142
8	At home with Mona Lisa : consumers and commercial visual culture, 1880-1920	160
9	Gustav Stickley's designs for the home : an activist aesthetic for the upwardly mobile	177
10	Handicraft, Native American art, and modern Indian identity	194
11	Alone on the sidewalks of New York : Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892-1913	210
12	The colors of modernism : Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney brothers, and the relationship between art and industry in the 1920s	228
13	The invisibility of race in modernist representation : Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk	247
14	Caricaturing the Gringo tourist : Diego Rivera's Folkloric and touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday afternoon in Xochimilco	266
15	The Norman Rockwell Museum and the representation of social conflict	280