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, Peter Wollen Mapping / Lucy R. Lippard The love of art / Pierre Bourdieu, 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.