This Is America

Keri Watson is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Central Florida.Keidra Daniels Navaroli is a McKnight Doctoral Fellow in the Texts and Technology Program at University of Central Florida.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Constructing Indigenous America Early America: Mound Builder CulturesAdena CultureHopewell CultureArt of the Pacific NorthwestOld Bering Sea CultureThe Tlingit and Haida Cultures of the Northwest CoastArt and Architecture of the SouthwestThe Hohokam CultureThe Mimbres CultureArt of the Caribbean Taíno Chapter 2: Colonial Disruptions: Un/Making a "New World" Constructing and Circulating Images of the OtherIn Search of SpicesIn Search of GoldLabor and LuxuryForced Labor, Conquest, and ColonizationPower and PortraitureBuilding the "New World"New SpainNew England and New NetherlandNew France Chapter 3: Establishing an Anglo American Nation: Art During the Federal Period Visualizing RevolutionThe War of the ConquestThe Sons of LibertyPicturing America and AmericansFraming the OtherEstablishing a National IconographyBuilding American InstitutionsStaging RebellionThe Myth of Benevolence Chapter 4: The Nineteenth Century: Westward Expansion and Indian RemovalRemaking the NationFlorida and the American SouthThe Trans-Mississippi WestPortraying Native BodiesFrom "Noble Savage" to "Vanishing Race"Fashioning the Self: Native Subjects Speak BackImagining the WestSurvey Paintings and Photography"Cowboys and Indians" Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century: Stitching Together a New Body PoliticPainting Scenes of Everyday LifeAmericans at Work and at HomePrints and PatronsPerforming the OtherMythologizing the PastArt, Literature, and the Penny PressThe Mexican American WarThe Civil WarGo West!Race, Art, and ActivismRepresenting Slavery and FreedomImages of Reconstruction Chapter 6: The Nineteenth Century: Reshaping the Landscape Rural Cemeteries and Public ParksPhiladelphia: Athens of AmericaThe American SublimePlantation PortraitsAmerican ImpressionismThe End of Landscape Painting Chapter 7: From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era: Picturing Gender, Race, and ClassExhibiting Wealth and Class in the Gilded AgePortraits and PowerBuilding the Gilded AgeGlobalism and Imperialism at World's FairsScientific Racism and the Centennial International Exposition of 1876Women, Race, and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893The War of 1898 and the Louisiana Purchase ExpositionPicturing Gender, Race, and Class in the Progressive EraHow the Other Half LivesOut of the Ash Can Chapter 8: The Multiple Modernisms of the Interwar Period The New Negro MovementThe Jazz AgeSculpting the Harlem RenaissanceStieglitz, Precisionism, and SurrealismThe Stieglitz CircleCapturing the Machine AgeSurrealism in the AmericasPueblo Artists and the Taos SchoolFigurationAbstractionRegionalism and the American SceneAmerican RegionalismPainting the American Scene Chapter 9: Depression and Recovery: The New Deal, World War II, and the Post-War Boom The New DealPublic Works of ArtSocial RealismThe Art of WarRepresenting WarIllustrating InternmentMythmaking: Postwar AbstractionAbstract ExpressionismColor Field Painting"Out in the World": Found Objects, Funk, and PopNeo-DadaPop Chapter 10: Challenging the Past and Imagining the FutureArt and/as ActivismThe Black Arts MovementThe Feminist Arts MovementThe Chicano Arts Movement Disability Rights The Gay Rights MovementArt in the Expanded SphereMinimalism, Conceptualism, and Earth ArtFaith and ReasonNeo-Expressionism and Afro-FuturismKey TermsIndex

The title of this revolutionary textbook, This Is America, communicates its mission to introduce readers to both well-known and previously-overlooked artists and their works. Each chapter juxtaposes examples in different media and from varying regions of the Americas with references to relevant historical, art historical, and theoretical scholarship. By showcasing traditionally marginalized creators and their arts and craft practices, the book diversifies a traditionally exclusive American art canon.