Includes bibliographical references (p. 690-694) and index.

How to use this book * Preface: A reader's guide Introductions Psychoanalysis in modernism and as a method * The social history of art: models and concepts * Formalism and structuralism * Poststructuralism and deconstruction * Globalization, networks and the aggregate as form 1900 - 1909 * 1910 - 1919 * 1920 - 1929 * 1930 - 1939 * 1940 - 1944 * Roundtable: Art at mid-century * 1945 - 1949 * 1950 - 1959 * 1960 - 1969 * 1970 - 1979 * 1980 - 1989 * 1990 - 1999 * 2000 - 2015 * Roundtable: The predicament of contemporary art Glossary * Further Reading * Selected useful websites * Picture credits * Index

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