Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Situating Art and Critical Discourse in Contemporary Political Contexts 1
5. I ENVISIONING A PAST, IMAGINING THE WEST
6. 1. George Caleb Bingham: Contested Ground 9
7. 2. Frederic Remington: Riding into the Sunset 27
8. 3. Frederic Edwin Church: Earth First? 40
9. 4. The West Explored: How the West was Won, or Why Is the Winning Westernized? 52
10. 5. Georgia O'Keeffe: Ideology and Utopia in the American Southwest 68
11. 6. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas 79
12. 7. American Impressionism-California School: "California Dreamin'''? 91
13. II DEVELOPING THE PRESENT, DEFINING A WORLD
14. 8. Japan-The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, II8S-1868: The Ironies ofImperialism in the Empire of Signs 107
15. 9. Made in U.S.A.: "The Pride is Back"? 119
16. 10. IIya Kabakov: Soviet Life 137
17. 11. Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business 152
18. 12. Sue Coe: Pure War in the Zero World 169
19. 13. Hispanic Art in the United States: "This Is Not a Barrio" 178
20. 14. Roger Brown: Tracing the Silhouettes from the Shadow of the Silent Majorities 189
21. 15. Robert Longo: The Ecstasy of Communication 200
22. 16. Culture and Commentary: Riding the Hoverculture 213
23. 17. The Politics ofImages: Art Criticism as Cultural Criticism 227
24. Notes 235
25. Index 247