Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London
Paris: the capital of modern art
New technology
The beginnings of modern art
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
The Conditions for Modern Art
Urban Capitalism
Paris and the birth of the modern city
Capitalist society
The commodification of art
The modern condition
Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image
The art museum
Temporary exhibitions
Lithography
Photography
The Artist's Response
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
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
Iconology
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.