Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London
Paris: the capital of modern art
The beginnings of modern art
Suprematism/Constructivism
The Conditions for Modern Art
Paris and the birth of the modern city
The commodification of art
Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image
Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing
Transparency and unmediated modernism
Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism
Photography and unmediated modernism
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
Modern art and pornography
The nude and the modernist cycle of life
The allegorical or non-sexual nude
Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin.
