Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situating Art and Critical Discourse in Contemporary Political Contexts
Part I. Envisioning a Past, Imagining the West
Chapter 1. George Caleb Bingham: Contested Ground
Chapter 2. Frederic Remington: Riding into the Sunset
Chapter 3. Frederic Edwin Church: Earth First?
Chapter 4. The West Explored: How the West was Won, or Why Is the Winning Westernized?
Chapter 5. Georgia O'Keeffe: Ideology and Utopia in the American Southwest
Chapter 6. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas
Chapter 7. American Impressionism - California School: "California Dreamin'"?
Part II. Developing the Present, Defining a World
Chapter 8. Japan - The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868: The Ironies of Imperialism in the Empire of Signs
Chapter 9. Made in U.S.A.: "The Pride is Back"?
Chapter 10. Ilya Kabakov: Soviet Life
Chapter 11. Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business
Chapter 12. Sue Coe: Pure War in the Zero World
Chapter 13. Hispanic Art in the United States: "This Is Not a Barrio"
Chapter 14. Roger Brown: Tracing the Silhouettes from the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
Chapter 15. Robert Longo: The Ecstasy of Communication
Chapter 16. Culture and Commentary: Riding the Hoverculture
Chapter 17. The Politics of Images: Art Criticism as Cultural Criticism
Notes
Index