Introduction -- Icons -- Chart of contents -- 1: Early American Art -- Narrative drama / John S Copley -- Clay keystone arch / Thomas Jefferson -- Painted crackle crayon / Gilbert Stuart -- Peaceable collage / Edward Hicks -- Draw bugs 'n critters / John James Audubon -- Face casting / Frederic Remington -- Monoprint back-draw / Mary Cassatt -- Felt applique / Harriet Powers -- Assembly line coloring / Nathanael Currier -- Assembly line coloring / James Ives -- Bright light window / Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Side-view portrait / James McNeill Whistler -- Great reproduction / John Singer Sargent -- Real painting / William Sidney Mount -- 2: New American Ideas -- Feelings wash over / Edward Hopper -- Bubble window / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Carved clay / Gutzon Borglum -- Busy season / Grandma Moses -- Energetic color blocks / Hans Hofmann -- Homage portrait / Charles Demuth -- Sports figures / George Bellows -- Box assemblage / Joseph Cornell -- Coil pottery / Maria Martinez -- Bas relief clay carving / Elijah Pierce -- Daily picture diary / Horace Pippin -- Hero mural / Thomas Hart Benton -- Invent a Rube Goldberg / Rube Goldberg -- Gothic paste-up / Grant Wood -- 3: American Art Explodes -- Magazine cover / Norman Rockwell -- Friendly portrait / Ansel Adams -- Rocking stabile / Alexander Calder -- Playground model / Walt Disney -- Edgy relief / Charles Biederman -- Color-field panel / Mark Rothko -- Interwining ribbons / Willem de Kooning -- Scratchboard illustration / Barbara Cooney -- Tetrahedra sculpture / Buckminster Fuller -- Great action art / Jackson Pollock -- Squiggle talk / Saul Steinberg -- Mixed montage / Romare Bearden -- Suessels / Theodor Seuss Geisel -- Layered soft pastel / Wolf Kahn -- Tissue stain / Richard Diebenkorn -- Encaustic flag on wood / Jasper Johns -- Package design / Andy Warhol -- Yummy cake painting / Wayne Thiebaud -- Comic sounds / Roy Lichtenstein -- Very special stamp / Robert Indiana -- Dough panel / Ruth Asawa -- Soak stain / Helen Frankenthaler -- Ruled stamp wash / Agnes Martin -- Balsa block print / Elizabeth Catlett -- Painting with distance / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Action athlete / LeRoy Neiman -- Super-size sculpture / Claes Oldenburg -- Super-size sculpture / Coosje van Bruggen -- Subway chalk / Keith Haring -- Spiral earth art / Robert Smithson --
Foil friend / Roy De Forest
Foam brush faces / Fritz Scholder
Surreal tableau photo / Sandy Skoglund
Mega-shiny diptych / Joseph Raffael
Wish quilt / Faith Ringgold
Concentric paint / Frank Stella
Sanded wood spirits / Jewell James
Trinket sculpture / Pepon Osorio
Shack sculpture / Beverly Buchanan
Memorial plaque / Maya Lin
Camouflage mixed media / Bev Doolittle
Pool spheres / Dale Chihuly
Free-hand silhouette / Kara Walker
Still life with glass / Janet Fish
Masked form / Julian Schnabel
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