I like America: fictions of the wild West

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Foreword / Max Hollein -- Indian galleries : Charles Bird King, A. Zeno Shindler, and George Catlin -- "The unmastered past of the Indians' murder" / Pamela Kort -- Indian images for the king : George Catlin in Europe / Peter Bolz -- Natural histories : Emanuel Leutz, Karl Bodmer, and Balduin Möllhausen -- The image of America in the German popular press -- Illustrating America : images of the North American Wild West in German periodicals, 1825-1890 / H. Glenn Penny -- Historical narratives or sublime views? : Carl Wimar, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran -- Live! : ethnographic exhibitions, scientists, and the masses : Franz Boas, Aby Warburg, and Carl Hagenbeck -- Seeing the imaginary : on the popular reception of Wild West shows in Germany, 1885-1910 / Eric Ames -- The Wild West comes to Germany and Austria : Doc Carver, Annie Oakley, and Buffalo Bill -- Karl May -- German Wild West : Karl May's invention of the definitive Indian / Karl Markus Kreis -- "The winning of the West" : Alexander Pope, Ashley D.M. Cooper, Charles Schreyvogel, Charles Russell, and Frederic Remington -- Cowboys and Indians in the circus and cinema -- From the "frontier" to the Wild West : German artists, American Indians, and the spectacle of race and nation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Barbara McCloskey -- Fantasies of the Wild West in early twentieth-century German art : Max Slevogt, August Macke, Marsden Hartley, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, Rudolf Schlichter, and Otto Dix -- A lesson from Beuys -- Joseph Beuys' "I like America and America likes me" / Eugen Blume -- List of exhibited works -- Index of names --Photo credits.