Why Is There No Political Science of the Arts?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Why Is There No Political Science of the Arts? 13
5. Rubens’s Pictorial Peacekeeping Force: Negotiating through ‘Visual Speech-Acts 33
6. Political Iconography and the Picture Act: The Execution of Charles I in 1649 63
7. “The Conqueror of Canada” – Benjamin West and the Heroes of Sentimentalism 85
8. Nationalism and Truth in Grant Wood’s 105
9. Masculinity, Sexuality, and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons 119
10. Bauhaus, the Radio, and the Colors of Fascism 143
11. Adolf Hitler’s (Self-)Fashioning as a Genius: The Visual Politics of National Socialism’s Cult of Genius 163
12. The Grammar of Postrevolutionary Visual Politics: Comparing Presidential Stances of George Washington and Friedrich Ebert 177
13. Making the Invisible Visible: The Public Persona of Malcolm X 199
14. The New Face of American Anger: Internet Imagery and the Power of Contagious Feeling 219
15. Photographing American Indians: An Imaginary Exhibition 235
16. The “Other” Country in the City: Urban Space and the Politics of Visibility in American Social Documentary Photography 253
17. Taming the Teeming Masses: Visualizing Order at Ellis Island 273
18. Replacing the President: Cecil Stoughton’s “Lyndon B. Johnson Taking the Oath of Office" and the Iconography of U.S. American Presidential Inaugurations 291
19. Souvenirs from the Landscapes of Modernity: Richard Misrach, Camilo Vergara, and the Visual Politics of Ruin 315
20. The Trouble with Atrocity Photography in Gerhard Richter, Robert Morris and Alfredo Jaar, or, Art on the Brink of Failure 355
21. Must-See Sights: The Politics of Representing U.S.-American History 377
22. Body, Building, City, and Environment: Iconography in the Mexican Megalopolis 401
23. Aesthetics and Political Iconography of Money 419
24. Notes on Contributors 429
25. Index 435
26. Backmatter 445