%0 Journal Article %T "Criticizing Americanness in 3D": Paul McCarthys F-Fort %A Weis %A Katharina Klara %J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies %D 2005 %I University of Regensburg %X This essay investigates and documents the particularities of Paul McCarthy's installation F-Fort with respect to the methods of visualisation applied. Thus, the analysis of prefabricated symbols and concepts of heroes leads to a change of perspectives and a deconstruction of classical myths unfolds. At the end of the paper visitors' reactions towards McCarthy's work of art are presented. %U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/79/102