Contents -- Introduction -- Why Is There No Political Science of the Arts? -- Rubens's Pictorial Peacekeeping Force: Negotiating through 'Visual Speech-Acts -- Political Iconography and the Picture Act: The Execution of Charles I in 1649 -- "The Conqueror of Canada" - Benjamin West and the Heroes of Sentimentalism -- Nationalism and Truth in Grant Wood's -- Masculinity, Sexuality, and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons -- Bauhaus, the Radio, and the Colors of Fascism -- Adolf Hitler's (Self-)Fashioning as a Genius: The Visual Politics of National Socialism's Cult of Genius -- The Grammar of Postrevolutionary Visual Politics: Comparing Presidential Stances of George Washington and Friedrich Ebert -- Making the Invisible Visible: The Public Persona of Malcolm X -- The New Face of American Anger: Internet Imagery and the Power of Contagious Feeling -- Photographing American Indians: An Imaginary Exhibition -- The "Other" Country in the City: Urban Space and the Politics of Visibility in American Social Documentary Photography -- Taming the Teeming Masses: Visualizing Order at Ellis Island -- Replacing the President: Cecil Stoughton's "Lyndon B. Johnson Taking the Oath of Office" and the Iconography of U.S. American Presidential Inaugurations -- Souvenirs from the Landscapes of Modernity: Richard Misrach, Camilo Vergara, and the Visual Politics of Ruin -- The Trouble with Atrocity Photography in Gerhard Richter, Robert Morris and Alfredo Jaar, or, Art on the Brink of Failure -- Must-See Sights: The Politics of Representing U.S.-American History -- Body, Building, City, and Environment: Iconography in the Mexican Megalopolis -- Aesthetics and Political Iconography of Money -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.