Seeing high & low : representing social conflict in American visual culture / edited by Patricia Johnston.

"An Ahmansona-Murphy fine arts book"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educating for distinction? Art, hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase group / David Steinberg -- Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: social tensions in an ideal world / Patricia Johnston -- Cartoons in color: David Gilmour Blythe's very uncivil war / Sarah Burns -- "Ain't I a woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the iconography of emancipation / Melissa Dabakis -- Cultural racism: resistance and accommodation in the Civil War art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast / Patricia Hills -- Custer's last stand: high-low on old and new frontiers / Patricia M. Burnham -- Reenvisioning "This well-wooded land" / Janice Simon -- At home with Mona Lisa: consumers and commercial visual culture, 1880-1920 / Katharine Martinez -- Gustav Stickley's designs for the home: an activist aesthetic for the upwardly mobile / Arlette Klaric -- Handicraft, Native American art, and modern Indian identity / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Alone on the sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's photography, 1892-1913 / Joanne Lukitsh -- The colors of modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney brothers, and the relationship between art and industry in the 1920s / Regina Lee Blaszczyk -- The invisibility of race in modernist representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk / Donna M. Cassidy -- Caricaturing the Gringo tourist: Diego Rivera's Folkloric and touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday afternoon in Xochimilco / Jeffrey Belnap -- The Norman Rockwell Museum and the representation of social conflict / Alan Wallach.