CONTENTS
I The Legacy of Symbolism
A Classicism and Originality 15
B Expression and the Primitive 59
II The Idea of the Modern World
A Modernity 132
B Cubism 184
III Rationalization and Transformation
A Neo-Classicism and the Call to Order 226
B Dissent and Disorder 250
C Abstraction and Form 276
D Utility and Construction 333
IV Freedom, Responsibility and Power
A The Modern as Ideal 362
B Realism as Figuration 402
C Realism as Critique 442
D Modernism as Critique 506
V The Individual and the Social
A The American Avant-Garde 562
B Individualism in Europe 595
C Art and Society 640
VI The Moment of Modernism
A Art and Modern Life 693
B Modernist Art 762
VII Institutions and Objections
A Objecthood and Reductivism 818
B Attitudes to Form 868
C Political Aspects 913
D Critical Revisions 944
VIII Ideas of the Postmodern
A The Critique of Originality 1018
B Figures of Difference 1057
C The Condition of History 1117