Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Michael Asher and the conclusion of modernist sculpture (1980) -- Beuys : the twilight of the idol, preliminary notes for a critique (1980) -- Marcel Broodthaers : open letters, industrial poems (1987) -- The museum and the monument : Daniel Buren's Les Couleurs / Les Formes (1981) -- Memory lessons and history tableaux : James Coleman's archaeology of spectacle (1995) -- Monuments of history in the work of Dan Graham (1978) -- Hans Haacke : memory and instrumental reason (1988) -- Hantaï/Villeglé and the dialectics of painting's dispersal (1999) -- Plenty or nothing : from Yves Klein's Le Vide to Arman's Le Plein (1998) -- Knight's moves : situating the art/object (1986) -- Structure, sign, and reference in the work of David Lamelas (1997) -- Parody and appropriation in Francis Picabia, Pop, and Sigmar Polke (1982) -- Readymade, photography, and painting in the painting of Gerhard Richter (1977) -- Process sculpture and film in Richard Serra's work (1978) -- Spero's other traditions (1996) -- Villeglé : from fragment to detail (1991) -- Andy Warhol's one-dimensional art, 1956-1966 (1989) -- Robert Watts : animate objects, inanimate subjects (2000) -- The posters of Lawrence Weiner (1986).