Reading American Art Book

	Editors' Preface
1	The Seventeenth-Century New England Mercantile Image: Social Content and Style in the Freake Portraits	1
2	Character and Class: The Portraits of John Singleton Copley	12
3	Charles Willson Peale's Expressive Design: The Artist in His Museum	38
4	Thomas Cole and the Aristocracy	79
5	"A Correct Likeness": Culture and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Rural America	109
6	The Painter's Triumph: William Sidney Mount and the Formation of a Middle-Class Art	128
7	"Doomed to Perish": George Catlin's Depictions of the Mandan	150
8	Narratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave	163
9	The Ideal Works of Edmonia Lewis: Invoking and Inverting Autobiography	190
10	"The Kiss of Enterprise": The Western Landscape as Symbol and Resource	208
11	The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of Professor Gross	232
12	Winslow Homer in His Art	264
13	Mary Cassatt: Painter of Women and Children	280
14	Image and Ideology: New York in the Photographer's Eye	302
15	John Sloan's Images of Working-Class Women: A Case Study of the Roles and Interrelationships of Politics, Personality, and Patrons in the Development of Sloan's Art, 1905-16	311
16	O'Keeffe and the Masculine Gaze	350
17	The Open Window and the Empty Chair: Charles Sheeler's View of New York	371
18	The Birth of a National Icon: Grant Wood's American Gothic	387
19	The Question of Difference: Isabel Bishop's Deferential Office Girls	409
20	Jackson Pollock: Representing the Unconscious	440
	Contributors	465
	Acknowledgments	468