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List of illustrations

  • The Artist in His Museum
  • Progress (The Advance of Civilization)
  • Aspiration
  • Jersey Homesteads Mural, right-hand panel, detail
  • Cover of the exhibition catalog The Family of Man
  • One Ton Prop (House of Cards)
  • Asphalt Rundown
  • Guarded Conditions
  • Altered Earth
  • Paper Dance
  • Baron Alexander von Humboldt
  • Humanitas. Literae. Fruges.
  • Atlas Géographique et Physique
  • Allegory of America from New Inventions of Modern Times (Nova Reperta)
  • Getty Wildfire sweeps west from the Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles, California
  • Basket
  • Presentation basket, detail
  • Presentation basket
  • Presentation basket
  • Basket tray and two basket bowls
  • Margo Robbins (front row, second from the left) with participants from the Cultural Burn Training Exchange and Yurok baskets
  • Cradle basket
  • Community Burden Basket
  • Harrison's victory at Tippecanoe, November 7th, 1811
  • Harrison's victory at Tippecanoe, November 7th, 1811, detail
  • Table
  • Blake's Patriotic Log Cabin Music
  • Fifth Avenue between Forty-First and Forty-Second Street, View of the New York Public Library Picture Collection, April 30, 1947
  • Wife and Children of Sharecropper, Arkansas, October 1935
  • Venus
  • Symphony in White and Red
  • Arrangement in Brown and Black: Portrait of Miss Rosa Corder
  • Annabel Lee
  • Nocturne: Blue and Silver—Bognor
  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  • Homage to New York (I Do Not Challenge)
  • Torso/Landscape
  • Installation view of Leon Golub display at the exhibition New Images of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  • Birth of Death
  • The Evil New War God
  • Installation view of Jan Müller and H. C. Westermann display at the exhibition New Images of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
  • Environment
  • The Shape of Time
  • Cauleen Smith: Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing at The Kitchen, New York, installation view
  • Partially Buried Woodshed
  • Double Negative
  • Remote Viewing, still
  • Remote Viewing, still
  • Remote Viewing, still
  • Remote Viewing, still
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Description: Humans
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Description: Humans
Human beings are organisms, but “the human being” is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of ideas and practices. This volume explores the competing understandings of the human being that have figured in the history of American art. Its seven essays consider a range of artworks from the early modern period to the present in order to...
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Description: Humans
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a German scientist and polymath internationally celebrated during the nineteenth century for devising holistic, synthetic methods of studying plant geography, geology, and other environmental phenomena. After...
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Description: Humans
Stories about the origins of fire give shape to the malleable category “humans” and predict the long-term...
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When industrially produced, printed pictures began to achieve mass circulation in the early to mid-nineteenth century, cultural...
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Description: Humans
This essay considers the oeuvre of the artist James McNeill Whistler in terms of Whistler’s sustained meditation on human consciousness and evocation of human presence. His motifs relied on an abbreviated form of notation, recognizable, for instance, in the broad, almost transparent swathes of...
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This essay examines the loosely affiliated Chicago-based group of artists that became known as “Monster Roster” in relation to debates on the politics of figuration at mid-century in the United States. As a group, Monster...
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Description: Humans
The last two lines of Ad Reinhardt’s 1966 review of George Kubler’s The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (fig. 1), in ARTnews, read:
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In the winter of 2011, Cauleen Smith’s work was featured in an exhibition titled Remote Viewing and Other Ways of Seeing at The Kitchen in...
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