Revision, Revisionism and Rehabilitation, 1959/1999: The American Century, ModernStarts and Cultural Memory

Discusses factors in November 1999 that caused active viewers and readers in the United States into revisionist debates about American art, culture and politics of the 1950s. Impact of the exhibitions "The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000" at the Whitney Museum of American Art and "ModernStarts: People, Places, Things," at the Museum of Modern Art; Understanding of visual culture as myth or allegory within institutional representations of remembrance.