Introduction: The Crux of Modernism --
I. The Avant-Garde and Modernism --
Counter-Avant-Garde --
Looking for the Avant-Garde --
Modern and Postmodern --
Beginnings of Modernism --
II. States of Criticism --
Necessity of "Formalism" --
Can Taste Be Objective? --
Abstract, Representational, and So Forth --
Detached Observations --
Seminar 6 --
States of Criticism --
Intermedia --
To Cope with Decadence --
III. Art and Culture --
Old India: Her Monuments --
Influences of Matisse --
Four Scottish Painters --
Picasso --
Clyfford Still --
The Golden Floating World of Sotatsu --
Glass as High Art --
Art and Culture --
Drawing --
Response to "New York in the Eighties" --
IV. Interviews