Vol. 1. 1870-1944. Modern art / preface by Hans Werner Holzwarth -- Impressionism : pictures created from light and colour / essay by Karin H. Grimme -- Symbolism : faced with the Sphinx / essay by Norbert Wolf -- Cubism : a new cognitive order? / essay by Anne Ganteführer-Trier -- Expressionism : a metaphysical German meatloaf / essay by Norbert Wolf -- Futurism : art + action + life = futurism / essay by Sylvia Martin -- Abstract art : paintings of autonomous signs ; Dadaism : before Dada was there, there was Dada / essay[s] by Dietmar Elger -- Realism : the truth of the visible / essay by Kerstin Stremmel -- Surrealism : a new declaration of the rights of man / essay by Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy.

Vol. 2. 1945-2000. Abstract expressionism : a constant searching of oneself / essay by Barbara Hess -- Pop art : the tension between art and reality / essay by Klaus Honnef -- Minimal art : what you see is what you see ; Conceptual art : ideas, systems, processes / essay[s] by Daniel Marzona -- Post-modernism : a more fully human world than the older one / essay by Hans Werner Holzwarth -- Glossary -- Artists' biographies -- Index of persons -- Biographical notes on the authors.