Contents

Series Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

1.    Parallel Paths on the Same River

2.    Visualizing a Partial Revolution

3.    Liberation Graphics

4.    Abolitionism as Autonomy, Activism, and Entertainment

5.    The Battleground over Public Memory

6.    Photographing the Past During the Present

7.    Jacob A. Riis’s Image Problem

8.    Haymarket: An Embattled History of Static Monuments and Public Interventions

9.    Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Life

10.  The Masses on Trial

11.  Banners Designed to Break a President

12.  The Lynching Crisis

13.  Become the Media, Circa 1930

14.  Government-Funded Art: The Boom and Bust Years for Public Art

15.  Artists Organize

16.  Artists Against War and Fascism

17.  Resistance or Loyalty: The Visual Politics of Miné Okubo

18.  Come Let Us Build a New World Together

19.  Party Artist: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party

20.  Protesting the Museum Industrial Complex

21.  “The Living, Breathing Embodiment of a Culture Transformed”

22.  Public Rituals, Media Performances, and Citywide Interventions

23.  No Apologies: Asco, Performance Art, and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement

24.  Art Is Not Enough

25.  Antinuclear Street Art

26.  Living Water: Sustainability Through Collaboration

27.  Art Defends Art

28.  Bringing the War Home

29.  Impersonating Utopia and Dystopia

Notes

Index