Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Differences and Distinctions of Art in/to Popular Culture -- Ancient Monuments and Monuments to Wealth: Travel and Tourism -- Stonehenge -- The Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu -- The Second Coffin of Tutankhamun -- The Great Wall of China -- The Taj Mahal -- Renaissance Masters: Scholarship and Museums -- Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera -- Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa -- Raphael Sanzio, The School of Athens -- Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Creation of Adam -- Titian, Venus of Urbino -- Monuments to and of the Modern World: Money and Memory -- Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, Liberty Enlightening the World (The Statue of Liberty) -- Gustave Eiffel, The Eiffel Tower -- Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, The Empire State Building -- Frank Lloyd Wright, The Guggenheim Museum -- Maya Lin, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- Nineteenth-Century Art: The Advertising Age of Artists -- Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother / James A.M. Whistler -- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat -- The Little Dancer, Age 14 / Edgar Degas -- Starry Night / Vincent van Gogh -- The Thinker / Auguste Rodin -- Nympheas (Waterlilies) / Claude Monet -- The Twentieth Century: Art and/into Popular Culture -- American Gothic / Grant Wood -- The Persistence of Memory / Salvador Dali -- Nighthawks / Edward Hopper -- Autumn Rhythm / Jackson Pollock -- Marilyn / Andy Warhol -- Untitled Mobile / Alexander Calder -- Untitled (Winged Baby) / Keith Haring -- Wrapped Reichstag / Christo, Jeanne-Claude.

Thirty art works that have become facets of the popular imagination are examined.