Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The World Without a Picture: Avant-Garde and Iconoclasm
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Iconoclasm Beyond Religion and Aesthetics
2.3 The Worldhood of the World
2.4 The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
2.5 The Avant-Garde and the "End of Art"
2.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Deconstruction of the Image: From Mimesis and Representation to Communication
3.1 Introduction: On the Trace of the Picture
3.1.1 The Iconic Turn
3.1.2 The Anthropology of Images (Bild-Anthropologie)

3.1.3 The Image as a Communication Medium
3.1.4 The World-Picture and the Scene of the Subject: Heidegger's Trace
3.2 Conclusion: Video-Centrism Without History?
References
Chapter 4: The Dark Core of Mimesis: Art, Body and Image in the Thought of Jean-Luc Nancy
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 What Is Art?
4.1.2 The Disembodiment and the Rising of the Body
4.1.3 An Image Without Foundation
4.2 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: The Dead-Nature of the Body: Biopolitics and Images of Humans' End
5.1 Art, But for What Reason?
5.2 Metamorphosis of the Body

5.2.1 Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde
5.2.2 The Symbolism of Life and Its Images
5.2.3 Two Bodies of Performative Art
5.2.4 Spectacle and Virtual Art
5.3 Biopolitics Against Life?
5.3.1 Art Without a Human
5.3.2 Cyborg-Transgenic Art-The Other World
5.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Event of the Moment: Time in Contemporary Art
6.1 The Permanent Revolution: Time of the Avant-Garde
6.2 Flash Moment
6.3 Clocks and Calendars: Dalí-Darboven
6.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Figures of Resistance: Painting After the End of the Avant-garde

7.1 The Black Cross of the Retro-Avant-garde
7.2 How Are Objects Observed?
7.3 Mediation of the Society of the Spectacle
7.4 Conclusion: Duchamp's Last Act
References
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Index