Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
Contents:
Walt Whitman and early twentieth-century American art -- American landscape painting and national identity: the Stieglitz circle and Emerson -- The silent witness of Edward Hopper -- American art and national identity: the 1920s -- The beginnings of "The American wave" and the Depression -- Grant Wood revisited -- The relevancy of Curry's paintings of Black freedom -- Thomas Hart Benton and the left -- The Emersonian presence in abstract expressionism -- American art around 1960 and the loss of self -- Pearlstein's people -- Robert Morris's latest works: slouching toward Armageddon -- A ramble around early earth works -- Reflections on/of Richard Estes -- Ben Shahn's postwar Jewish paintings -- Barnett Newman's stripe paintings and Kabbalah: a Jewish take -- Postscript: another kind of canon.
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