Looking High, Looking Low
Seeing High and Low (edited by Patricia Johnston) is a collection of stimulating essays from notable scholars in the field of American art history. Academic in scope, this anthology is still a great find for the general reader who wants to explore how art comments on social controversy, and how high and low art evolved as separate and opposing entities. Bringing to the fore issues of race, gender, class and culture, these fifteen case studies focus on hot spots in American history that found expression in art of the day. From Harper’s Weekly illustrations, Anheuser Busch ads to paintings worthy of the Louvre, the works discussed in Seeing High and Low reveal just how often art leads the way when it comes to the development of social ideologies in America.
