Mediation / Robert S. Nelson
At the place of a foreword : someone looking, reading, and writing / Robert S. Nelson
Operations
Representation / David Summers ; Sign / Alex Potts ; Simulacrum / Michael Camille
Communications
Word and image / W.J.T. Mitchell ; Narrative / Wolfgang Kemp ; Performance / Kristine Stiles ; Style / Jas Elsner ; Context / Paul Mattick, Jr. / Meaning/interpretation / Stephen Bann
Histories
Originality / Richard Shiff ; Appropriation / Robert S. Nelson ; Art history / David Carrier ; Modernism / Charles Harrison ; Avant-garde / Ann Gibson ; Primitive / Mark Antliff & Patricia Leighten ; Memory/monument / James E. Young
Social relations
Body / Amelia Jones ; Beauty / Ivan Gaskell ; Ugliness / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer ; Ritual / Suzanne P. Blier ; Fetish / William Pietz ; Gaze / Margaret Olin ; Gender / Whitney Davis ; Identity / Richard Meyer
Societies
Production / Terry Smith ; Commodity / Paul Wood ; Collecting/museums / Donald Preziosi ; Value / Joseph L. Koerner & Lisbet Rausing ; Postmodernism/postcolonialism / Homi K. Bhabha ; Visual culture/visual studies / James D. Herbert ; Social history of art / Craig Clunas ; Afterword : Figuration / Richard Shiff.