Summary: Preface General Introduction 1. Gestural Abstraction Peter Selz, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred H. Barr, Michel Tapié, Wols, Henri Michaux, Lucio Fontana, Emilio Vedova, Alberto Burri, Willi Baumeister, Antoni Tapies, Tadeusz Kantor, Per Kirkeby, Anselm Kiefer, 2. GEOMETIC ABSTRACTION Introduction Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Charles Biederman, Ad Dekkers, Ad Reinhardt, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Anne Truitt, Anthony Caro, Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Tony Smith, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Daniel Buren, Alfred Jensen, Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer, Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff, Peter Halley 3. FIGURATION Introduction Fernand Leger, Renato Guttuso, Max Beckmann, Paul Tillich, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Constant Niewenhuys, Karel Appel, Willem Sandberg, Alice Neel, Romare Bearden, Lucian Freud, R.B. Kitaj, David Hockney and Larry Rivers, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Philip Pearlstein, Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Arnulf Rainer, Philip Guston, Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francesco Clemente, Susan Rothenberg, Eric Frischl, Julian Schnabel, John Pitnam Weber, Jesse Helms, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano 4. MATERIAL CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE Introduction Richard Hamilton, Dieter Roth, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Pierre Restany, Daniel Spoerri, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Pino Pascali, Gerhard Richter, Ion Grigorescu, Tony Cragg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Bruce Conner, George Brecht, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Lucas Samaras, Ray Johnson, Edward Ruscha, Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Jeff Donaldson, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, David Wojnarowicz, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Jeff Koons, 5. ART AND TECHNOLOGY Introduction Nicholas Schöffer, Gustav Metzger, Jean Tinguely, Takis, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Billy Klüver, Mark Pauline, Survival Research Laboratories, Laurie Anderson, Krzyszstof Wodiczko Stelarc, Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Gerry Schum, Frank Gillette, Shigeko Kubota, Bill Viola, William Wegman, Pete D'agostino, Lynn Hershman, Martha Rosler, Myron W. Krueger, Peter Weibel, Jeffrey Shaw, Roy Ascott 6. INSTALLATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND SITES Introduction Joseph Cornell, Frederick Kiesler, Louise Nevelson, Edward Kienholz, Christian Boltanski, Isamu Noguchi, Eduardo Chillida, Maya Lin, Walter de Maria, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt , Agnes Denes, Alan Sonfist, Christo, Gordon Matta-Clark , Alice Aycock, Charles Simonds, Richard Long, Helen Meyer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Robert Irwin, James Turrell 7. PROCESS Introduction Robert Morris, Eva Hesse, Nancy Graves, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, Barry Le Va, Sam Gilliam, Jr. Lynda Benglis, Mierle Lademan, Ukeles Ann Hamilton and Kathryn Clark, Martin Puryear, Mark Thompson, Joseph Beuys, Franz Erhard Walther, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan, Jan Dibbets, Germano Celant, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Pinchas Cohen Gan 8. PERFORMANCE ART Introduction Jiro Yoshihara, Georges Mathieu, Situationist International, Guy Debord, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Rapha.