I: The European avant-garde in the 1930s -- Art in Paris in the 1930s / Emma Barker -- Surrealism's other side /Niru Ratnam -- II: Art in America: from realism to abstraction -- Realism and modernism / Pam Meecham -- Jackson Pollock / Charles Harrison -- Abstract expressionism and masculinity / Fionna Barber -- III: American modernism in the 1960s -- The critical terrain of 'high modernism' / Gail Day,Chris Riding -- Minimalism's situation / Ann Reynolds -- Vernacular modernism / Steve Edwards -- IV: The resumption of the avant-garde -- The'neo-avant-garde' / Paul Wood -- How New York queered the idea of modern art / Gavin Butt -- Warhol's 'factory': painting and the mass-cultural spectator / John Roberts -- In search of a revolutionary consciousness: further adventures of the European avant-garde / Robert Graham.