pt. 1. Art and spirituality. The sacred mountain in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean / Vincent Scully
Images of gods / Albert Elsen
Envisioning and (re)presenting the spirit world / Rosalind I.J. Hackett
pt. 2. Art patronage. The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage / Francis Haskell
A matter of taste : the monumental and exotic in the Qianlong reign / Harold L. Kahn
Women and the avant-garde / Kathleen D. McCarthy
pt. 3. Art and politics. Art and freedom in quattrocento Florence / Frederick Hartt
Iconography of Napoleon / Albert Boime
Propaganda in the communist state / Toby Clark
Can political passion inspire great art? / Michael Brenson
pt. 4. Public art. The public realm / Spiro Kostof
New deal for public art / Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz
Memorializing the unspeakable : public monuments and collective grieving / Carole Gold Calo
The persistence of controversy : patronage and politics / Harriet Senie
pt. 5. Issues concerning race and ethnicity. Inventing "the Indian" / Julie Schimmel
Introduction to Harlem Renaissance : art of Black America / Mary Schmidt Campbell
Naming / Lucy R. Lippard
pt. 6. Art and gender. The female nude : surfaces of desire ; The male nude : identity and denial / Richard Leppert
Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock
An infinite play of empty mirrors : women, surrealism, and self-representation / Whitney Chadwick
The masculine masquerade : masculinity represented in recent art / Helaine Posner
pt. 7. Art, science, and technology. Leonardo da Vinci : art in science / James S. Ackerman
Psychoanalysis I : Freud / Laurie Schneider Adams
The electronic era and postmodernism / Margot Lovejoy
Environment, audience, and public art in the new world (order) / by Mara Adamitz Scrupe.