Foreword / Linda Bantel -- Preface / Annette Blaugrund -- Behind the scenes : the organization of the American paintings / Annette Blaugrund -- Cosmopolitan attitudes : the coming of age of American art / H. Barbara Weinberg -- " Loitering through the Paris Exposition " : highlights of the American paintings at the Universal Exposition of 1889 / D. Dodge Thompson -- The chocolate Venus, " tainted " pork, the wine blight, and the tariff : Franco-American stew at the fair / Albert Boime -- Challenge and response : Americans and the architecture of the 1889 Exposition / Richard Guy Wilson.