Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London: Paris: the capital of modern art; New technology; The beginnings of modern art Part I: Realism to Surrealism: Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism; Neo-Impressionism; Synthetism; The Nabis; The Fauves; Expressionism; Cubism; Futurism; Orphism; Vorticism; Suprematism/ Constructivism; Neo-Plasticism; Dada; Purism; Surrealism; The '-ism' problem Part II: The Conditions for Modern Art Chapter 1. Urban Capitalism: Paris and the birth of the modern city; Capitalist society; The commodification of art; The modern condition Chapter 2. Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image: The art museum; Temporary exhibitions; Lithography; Photography; Conclusion Part III: The Artist's Response Chapter 3. Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing: The human eye; Transparency and unmediated modernism; Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism; Photography and unmediated modernism; Beyond the oil sketch; Cubism Chapter 4. Image/Modernism and the Graphic Traffic: The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood; Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau: Image/Modernism outside the Avant-Garde; Image/Modernism outside France; Exhibitions of the Avant-Garde; Fragmentation, dislocation, and recombination Part IV: Iconology Introduction Chapter 5. Sexuality and the Body: Manet's bodies; Modern art and pornography; The nude and the modernist cycle of life; The bathing nude; The allegorical or non-sexual nude; Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin; The bride stripped bare; Body parts and fragments Chapter 6. Social Class and Class Consciousness: Seurat and Sunday on the Grande Jatte, 1884; Class issues in Modernist culture; Portraiture; Images of peasantry; The worker and modern art Chapter 7. Anti-Iconography: Art Without 'Subject': Landscape painting; Text and image; Abstraction Chapter 8.
Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Art: National identity; Time and place; Abstract art, spiritualism, and internationalism; Nationalist landscape painting Afterword: The Private Institutionalization of Modern Art Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographic Essay; Timeline; Index.