1. The Depression and the New Deal: artistic production in the early 1930s 2. The administrative organisation of the Federal Art Project: power, possession and State 'cultural populism' 3. Nationalising art: The Community Art Center Program 4. 'Technologies of the Soul': Federal art in institutions 5. Indexing American design: the construction of national historicity 6. State cultural strategies: 'community', 'planning' and the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 7. The end of the Federal Art Project: art, politics and the State.