Table of Contents
- Cover
- Frontmatter
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1. Defining Straight Photography: Artistic Pluralism or Assimilation to Painting's "Foreign Tongue" (page 11)
- 2. "The Caricaturist's Way": Abstraction and Constructive Miscegenation (page 49)
- 3. The Promise of Cinema: Harnessing Spirit, Nation, and Art (page 93)
- 4. The Sense of Things: Collage, Illustration, and Regional American Culture (page 143)
- Conclusion (page 187)
- Notes (page 193)
- Selected Bibliography (page 243)
- List of Illustrations (page 247)
- Acknowledgments (page 251)
- Index (page 255)