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Maggie M. Cao is associate professor of art history and the David G. Frey Scholar in American Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America.
“The material Cao discusses in Painting US Empire and the arguments she formulates about this material are truly compelling. She draws equally, and impressively, on the form of her objects of study and on archival and historical records, which she mines with great rigor and acuity. This is an important and original work of scholarship.” * Rachael Z. DeLue, Princeton University * “In a transhistorical and global kaleidoscope of tropical plants and taxidermy, blocks of ice and sea-laden watercolors, Cao offers a compelling and ethically grounded rethinking of US art through imperialism. With deft art historical analysis, she demonstrates that nineteenth-century US art was shaped by imperial dreams of conquest, the legacies of which continue to shape the nation and the field of art history. Painting US Empire offers a pathway forward that will inspire others to write new tellings of ‘American art’ that deploy historic artworks as vital tools to begin to redress racism and colonialism.” * Jennifer Van Horn, University of Delaware *
