From the Book - Fourth edition.
Volume 1. c. 200 BCE-1900. Part 1: Art and conquest c. 200 BCE-1821 CE. 1. Visualizing the conquest : colonial Spain and indigenous Mesoamerica (c. 1500-1580) --
2. Art and architecture in the northern territories of New Spain (c. 900-1821) --
3. New France : contact zones and cultural production (c. 200 BCE-1760 CE) --
4.A Protestant presence in America : the arts of the British and Dutch colonies (c. 1585-1772) --
Part 2: Defining America c. 1765-1850. 5. Representing the American Revolution and its leaders (c. 1765-1810) --
6. Symbols of a new nation : architecture and indigenous histories (c. 1785-1827) --
7.The schooling of the nation's artists (c. 1820-1850) --
Part 3: Nature and nation c. 1000-1863. 8. Nature and the sacred (c. 1000-1863) --
9. The occupied landscape (c. 1830-1863) --
10. Domesticated nature (c. 1818-1860) --
Part 4:A nation at war c. 1830-1900. 11. Images of Mexico and/as America : the Mexico-US War and its aftermath (c. 1848-1860) --
12.A nation divided : slavery and the Civil War (c. 1839-1865) --
13. Reconstruction and shifting images of African Americans (c. 1886-1900) --
14.The Indian Wars and the end of the Ghost Dance (c. 1869-1900) --
Part 5: Art, labor, and the Gilded Age c. 1865-1900. 15.The art of industrial labor (c. 1871-1890) --
16.The art of professional and domestic labor (c. 1865-1889) --
17. Gender, the ideal, and the real (c. 1871-1900) --
18. Art and architecture at the end of the century (c. 1885-1900)
Volume 2. c. 1865-present. Part 5: Art, labor, and the Gilded Age c. 1865-1900. 15.The art of industrial labor (c. 1871-1890) --
16.The art of professional and domestic labor (c. 1865-1889) --
17. Gender, the ideal, and the real (c. 1871-1900) --
18. Art and architecture at the end of the century (c. 1885-1900) --
Part 6:The machine, the primitive, and the modern c. 1900-1930. 19. Modernism, realism, and the Avant-Garde (c. 1900-1920) --
20. Modernism, gender, and sexuality (c. 1900-1930) --
21. Modernism's racial others (c. 1900-1930) --
Part 7: Art for the people, art against fascism c. 1930-1945. 22. A New Deal vision of America (c. 1930-1943) --
23. Alternative visions : urban life and the industrial worker (c. 1930-1937) --
24. Alternative visions : rural America and women as workers (c. 1928-1940) --
24. Art against war and fascism (c. 1934-1945) --
Part 8: Art in a postwar Europe : from abstraction to political protest. 26. Gestures of liberation : abstract art as the new American art (c. 1946-1956) --
27. Pastiche, parody, and pop (c. 1950-1964) --
28.The minimal, the conceptual, and the modern (c. 1950-1976) --
29. An art of protest : the 1960s and 1970s (c. 1960-1980) --
Part 9: Postmodernism and the age of the anthropocene c. 1962-2016. 30. Postmodernism in architecture and art (c. 1962-2002) --
31. Postmodernist art, activism, and identity politics (c. 1979-1998) --
32. Envisioning the twenty-first century (c. 2000-2016)
The machine, the primitive, and the modern
Art for the people, art against Fascism
From Cold War to culture wars.
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