Includes writings and documents by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, and politicians on the issues and controversies of twentieth-century art movements:Realism as a radical project Modernism and American consciousness Machine Age modernity The "New Negro" and the jazz age Photography as art Photography as force for social change Art for the people Abstract expressionism The Cold War and the arts Pop Art in New York, Chicago, and California Conceptual Art and Earthworks Political and Anti-war art Black Arts movement Feminist movement Postmodernism Identity politics and body art Art in public spaces Censorship and the culture wars