Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction --
Formalism and historicity (1977) --
Marcel Broodthaers : allegories of the avant-garde (1980) --
Figures of authority, ciphers of regression : notes on the return of representation in European painting (1981) --
Allegorical procedures : appropriation and montage in contemporary art (1982) --
The museum fictions of Marcel Broodthaers (1983) --
From faktura to factography (1984) --
Readymade, objet trouvé, idée reçue (1985) --
The primary colors for the second time : a paradigm repetition of the neo-avantgarde (1986) --
Cold War constructivism (1986) --
Conceptual art 1962-1969 : from the aesthetics of administration to the critique of institutions (1989) --
Residual resemblance : three notes on the ends of portraiture (1994) --
Sculpture : publicity and the poverty of experience (1996).

"These influential essays by the noted critic and art historian Benjamin Buchloh have had a significant impact on the theory and practice of art history. Written over the course of three decades and now collected in one volume, they trace a history of crucial artistic transitions, iterations, and paradigmatic shifts in the twentieth century, considering both the evolution and emergence of artistic forms and the specific historical moment in which they occurred."