Table of Contents
Introduction: Seeing as a Contact Sport Jarrett Earnest… 1
Part I Hot & Cold
Hot
Andy Warhol 8
Willem De Kooning 12
"Women" Willem De Kooning Jean Dubuffet 16
Arshile Gorky 19
Two by Rembrandt 23
Zurbarán's Citrons 25
Velázquez 29
Courbet 33
Jackson Pollock 36
Jean-Michel Basquiat 38
Anselm Kiefer at MoMa 41
Otto Dix 44
Picasso and the Weeping Women 48
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec 51
Jane Dickson / Karen Finley 54
Keith Hah1Ng, 1956-1990 58
Ree Morton 59
Hélio Oiticica 62
Elizabeth Murray 66
Elizabeth Peyton 67
Bronzino 68
A Van Gogh Portrait 72
Kerry James Marshall 75
Henri Matisse I 79
Henri Matisse II 82
Cold
Andy Warhol's Grave 87
Baltic Views 90
Caspar David Friedrich 94
Joseph Beuys 97
Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian 100
S1Gmar Polke 103
Martin Kippenberger 106
URS Fischer 109
Shepard Fairey 110
Frederic Remington 114
Christopher Wool 118
Weegee 122
Adolescents 125
Mark Morrisroe 128
Louise Lawler and Institutional Critique 131
Pictures 135
Jenny Holzer 139
A Theft in Norway 141
Judith Leyster 144
Lucian Freud 148
Francis Bacon 151
Edgar Degas 156
Luc Tuymans 159
Peter Doig 163
Laura Owens: A Profile 164
Goya 178
Part II Heavy & Light
Heavy
Berlin, 1989 182
Removal of the Tilted Arc 184
Concrete and Scott Burton 186
Picasso Sculpture 190
Donatello 194
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 196
The Greeks 200
Charles Ray 203
Bruce Nauman 204
Rachel Harrison: A Profile 207
Thomas Hirschhorn 219
Jay Defeo 223
Alice Neel 227
Philip Guston 231
Martin Luther 234
The Ghent Altar Piece 239
Giorgio Morandi 252
Piet Mondrian 256
Mantegna 259
Young Rembrandt 262
Clement Greenberg, 1909-1994 264
Leo Castelli 268
Cindy Sherman at Metro Pictures 279
Cindy Sherman at MoMa 282
Jeff Koons: Sympathy for the Devil 286
Light
Fireworks 292
Felix González-Torres 295
Piero Della Francesca 298
Giovanni Bellini 303
Agnes Martin 304
Vermeer 308
Peter Hujar 312
Henri Cartier-Bresson 316
Helen Levitt 321
Thomas Struth 324
Mother Love (Whistler) 327
Karen Kilimnik 331
David Hockney 334
Frans Hals 336
The Auctions 340
Market Value 341
Fakery 344
Marcel Broodthaers 347
Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray 351
Mughal Paintings and Andrew Wyeth 354
Florine Stettheimer 357
Albert Oehlen 361
Bill Traylor 365
Abstraction 369
Credo: The Critic as Artist 374
Acknowledging 383
Index 385