Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbara Groseclose and Jochen Wierich
I. American Art and Art History
1. Newness, Flatness, and Other Myths: Looking for National Identity in European (and a Few British) Histories of American Art
Rebecca Zurier
2. Mutual Seduction: German Art History and American Art
Jochen Wierich
3. American Art Pre-1940 and the Problem of Art History's Object
Andrew Hemingway
4. Beyond the Borders: Nineteenth-Century British and American Art in Comparative Perspective
David Peters Corbett
II. Display and Exposition
5. The Absolute Past: Your Version or Ours? Canadian Constructions of Pre-1945 American Art History
Marylin McKay
6. An Artistic Tradition in the Making: Looking at American Art in French Nineteenth-Century Criticism
Veerle Thielemans
7. Ceci n'est pas un musée: Distance and Resistance in Franco-American Cultural Displays
Derrick R. Cartwright
8. Transatlantic Complexities: A Traveling Exhibition About Traveling Artists
Sophie Levy
III. Post-1945 Investments
9. Ménage à trois: Paris, New York, São Paolo, and the Love of Modern Art
Serge Guilbaut
10. The “Triumph” of American Art? Pop Art in the Postwar World
Christin J. Mamiya
Notes
Contributors
Index