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 One: Urban Capitalism Paris and the birth of the modern city Capitalist society The commodification of art The modern condition Chapter Two: 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 A Summer Sunday on the Island of 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 (compiled by Julie Lawrence Cochran) Index 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.