The invention and mapping of America, 1492-1760 -- Religious rituals and the visual arts in colonial America, 1620-1760 -- Art and the consumer revolution in colonial America, 1700-75 -- Revolutionary icons and the representation of republican virtue, 1765-1825 -- National identity and private interests in antebellum America, 1825-65 -- Art and commerce in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 -- Modernist art and politics, 1905-41 -- Modernism, postmodernism, and the survival of a critical vision, 1941-2000.