From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Modernity and self-identity : self and society in the late modern age / Anthony Giddens
When was Modernism? / Raymond Williams
Vision, voice and power : feminist art history and Marxism / Griselda Pollock
Politics and the intelligentsia / Noam Chomsky
The painting of modern life / Timothy J. Clark
On the problem of the autonomy of art in bourgeois society / Peter Bürger
Aesthetics and politics / Fredric Jameson
Art, autonomy and mass culture / Theodor Adorno
On non-objective painting / Bertolt Brecht
Abstract expressionism, weapon of the cold war / Eva Cockcroft
Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism / Terry Eagleton
Preliminaries to a possible treatment of 'Olympia' in 1865 / Timothy J. Clark
Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock
Orientalism / Edward Said.
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti / Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Mapping / Lucy R. Lippard
The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel
Defining 'Impressionism' and the 'impression' / Richard Shiff
The intransigent artist or How the Impressionists got their name / Stephen F. Eisenman
The 'primitive' unconscious of modern art / Hal Foster
In the name of Picasso / Rosalind Krauss
Figures of authority, ciphers of regression / Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
The new adventures of the Avant-Garde in America / Serge Guilbaut
Greenberg and The Group : a retrospective view / Barbara M. Reise
Minimalism and the rhetoric of power / Anna C. Chave
The Museum of Modern Art : the past's future / Alan Wallach.
The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin
Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg
'The works of art themselves'? / Raymond Williams
Literalism and abstraction / Philip Leider
Painting : the task of mourning / Yve-Alain Bois
Postmodernism and the 'politics' of style / Dick Hebdige.