Includes index.

Chapter one: Objects, toys. Lobster telephone / Salvador Dali ; Time transfixed / René Magritte ; Lobster trap and fish tail / Alexander Calder ; Flag above white with collage / Jasper Johns ; Earth eclipse / Joseph Cornell ; Homage to New York / Jean Tinguely ; Pancakes and sausages / Claes Oldernburg ; "Monument" for V. Tatlin / Dan Flavin ; Untitled (structure that eats salad) / Giovanni Anselmo ; Campbell's soup / Andy Warhol ; No title / Eva Hesse ; More love hours than can ever be repaid and the wages of sin / Mike Kelley ; "Untitled" (USA Today) / Felix Gonzalez-Torres ; Horses running endlessly / Gabriel Orozco ; Bidibidobidiboo / Maurizio Cattelan ; Meringue mix / Wayne Thiebaud ; Untitled (bird, nesting dolls, vase) / Haim Steinbach ; The ego and the id / Franz West ; Cuckoo in the nest / Gary Hume ; World leaders attend the marriage... / Grayson Perry ; Massachusetts chandelier / Pipilotti Rist -- Chapter two: Expressions, scribbles. Improvisation 21A / Wassily Kandinsky ; Cut with the kitchen knife / Hannah Hoch ; Head (biomorphic abstraction) / Hans Arp ; Hirondelle amour / Joan Miró ; Painting / Wols ; Onement / Barnett Newman ; Chief / Franz Kline ; One: number 31 / Jackson Pollock ; The dog / Alberto Giacometti ; The marriage of reason and squalor II / Frank Stella ; In the beginning was the image / Asger Jorn ; Untitled (grey) / Gerhard Richter ; Untitled / Mark Rothko ; Corner piece / Lynda Benglis ; Room with chair / Howard Hodgkin ; Trademarks / Vito Acconci ; 24 hour psycho / Douglas Gordon ; Tree of life / John Hoyland ; Beautiful, pop, spinning ice creamy, whirling, expanding painting / Damien Hirst ; Work no. 227: the lights going on and off / Martin Creed ; Samuel Beckett / Maggi Hambling -- Chapter three: Provocation, tantrums. Magical bishop costume / Hugo Ball ; Fountain / Marcel Duchamp ; God / Morton Livingstone Schamberg ; Abstract composition / Alexander Rodchenko ; The Cacodylic eye / Francis Picabia ; Year after year / Arshile Gorky ; Full-up / Arman ; Spatial concept "waiting" / Lucio Fontana ; Artist's shit / Piero Manzoni ; Still and chew: art and culture / John Jatham ; Untitled (12 horses) / Janniz Kounellis ; Class fool / Paul McCarthy ; Works in wealth III / Stephan Huber ; Fleeting monument / Cornelia Parker ; Untitled / Robert Gober ; My bed / Tracey Emin ; Bag / Gavin Turk -- Chapter four: Landscapes, playscapes. Suprematist composition: white on white / Kasimir Malevich ; The factory / Maurice Utrillo ; Counter-composition of dissonances, XVI / Theo van Doesburg ; Goin' fishin' / Arthur Dove ; Equivalent / Alfred Stieglitz ; The snail / Henri Matisse ; Yard / Allan Kaprow ; Winding towers / Bernd and Hilla Becher ; Map of broken glass (Atlantis) / Robert Smithson ; Untitled (8) I / Jim Dine ; Uncarved blocks / Carl Andre ; New stones, newton's tones / Tony Cragg ; Wayland's song / Anselm Kiefer ; Crack is wack / Keith Haring ; Geneva circle two / Richard Long ; Footsteps / Christian Marclay ; Concrete cabin / Peter Doig ; Empirical construction, Istanbul / Julie Mehretu ; Dots obsession - infinity mirrored room / Yayoi Kusama ; Sunflower seeds / Ai Weiwei -- Chapter five: People, monsters. The scream / Edvard Munch ; Portrait of Juan Gris / Amedeo Modigliani ; Angelus novus / Paul Klee ; Woman / André Masson ; Reading / Pablo Picasso ; Head of a hostage / Jean Fautrier ; Dandy / Jean Dubuffet ; Woman I / Willem de Kooning ; Olympia / Cy Twombly ; Woodmen / Georg Baselitz ; P.o.th.A.a.Vfb / Dieter Roth ; Singing sculpture / Gilbert & George ; Mouse on a table / Karel Appel ; Vertical roll / Joan Jonas ; In the studio / Philip Guston ; Untitled / Kiki Smith ; Portrait of R. Huber / Thomas Ruff ; The violinist / Dora Holzhandler ; Sony Levi / Martin Maloney ; Maman / Louise Bourgeois.