Preface
Introduction
1 Homages
In Memoriam: Jay DeFeo 1929-1989
Selma Waldman: The Pornography of War
Jacob Lawrence: History Painter from Harlem to Hiroshima
James W. Washington Jr.: Painter, Activist, Sculptor
Anthony Caro: Offering Utopia while Facing Hell
Antoni Tapies: Sweeper of Souls
Jack Whitten's Odyssey
The Humanism of Charles White
Bauhaus in the Northwest: The Art of Mary Henry
2 Uprooting History
Where are We Since 9/11?
Designed Obsolescence
Women Artists Take on the World
rAdIcAl prEsEncE
Donald Byrd: Dance as Provocation
Joan Jones and Gina Pane: Process and Pain
Embedding Latinx Art in American Art History
Working Outside Norms: Contemporary Art by Native Women
Reworking the Legacy: Edward Curtis
The Nightmares of Ordinary People in the Paintings of Benny Andrews
Gloria Anzaldúa: Beyond Binaries
3 Ecologies and Extinctions
Paradigms and Paradoxes: Nature Morality and Art in America
Maya Lin: Extinctions and Confluences
Water Cycles and Water Treatment
Buster Simpson Court Jester of Eco-Urban Art
Conceptualism and Climate Change in Contemporary Greek Art
Constellations on a Cycladic Island
Common Sense Can Save Our Planet: Ann Hamilton
A Cautionary Tale of Nature's Forces: Amie McNeel, Mark Zirpel and Sam Stubblefield
Orcas: An Ongoing Tragedy
Olive Ayhens: Urbanities and Ur-Beasts
4 Indigenous Resistances
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and N. Scott Momaday: Devastation and Survival
John Feodorov's Spiritual Ambiguities
Not Vanishing: Contemporary Indigenous Art
The Magic of Haida Gwaii
Charles Edenshaw: Haida Sculptor in the Era of Assimilation
Native Paddlers and Kayaktivists Protest Drilling in the Arctic
Break Free from Fossil Fuels!
The Spirit of Standing Rock
Red Ink
Pollution on Native Lands
5 Upending Expectations
Vito Acconci's Evacuation Plans
Nancy Graves: Defying Categories
Masami Teraoka on AIDS and the Internet
Tatiana Garmendia and the Immorality of War
Titus Kaphar: Cutting up Myths
Kehinde Wiley's Heroes and Saints
Kerry James Marshall: Maestro and Shaman
In our Face: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
Mickelene Thomas Muse
Zanele Muholi "Hail the Black Lioness"
6 Defying Clichés
Jean Lacy's Stained Glass Windows
Icons Now and Then by Betye Saar
Marilyn Walgore's Gender Games
Pamela Allara Faces Alice Neel Head On
Tomur Atagök's Anatolian Goddess Series
Imna Arroyo: History, Place, Spirituality
Marita Dingus's Acts of Metamorphosis
Carletta Carrington Wilson's "book of the bound" and "Letter to a Laundress"
Still Life and Concupiscence by Gloria Bornstein
DeeDee Faces the Abyss, But Still Imagines Utopia: Deborah Faye Lawrence
LaToya Ruby Frazier Exposes the Injuries of Capitalism in Braddock, Pennsylvania
Martha Rosler: "Housing is a Human Right"
You Mist, Again (Rattle) and ReRun by Natalie Ball
7 Setting Our Hearts on Fire
Lillian Pitt: Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home
Joe Feddersen's Abstractions as Politics
Heaven on Fire: Barbara Earl Thomas
Alfredo ArreguÍn Grieves and Celebrates
Susan Lytle and Alfredo ArreguÍn Look Closely at Nature
Preston Singletary's Raven and the Box of Daylight
Setting Our Hearts on Fire: Robert Davidson
Publication History
Index
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