Preface Saul Ostrow Commentary Richard Kalina 1. Quick Symbols
2. Technology and Sex in Science Fiction: A Note on Cover Art
3. Design as a Human Activity
4. Personal Statement
5. The Arts and the Mass Media
6. The Long Front of Culture
7. City Notes
8. Artists as Consumers
9. Junk Culture
10. Pop Art since 1949
11. Six Painters and the Object
12. The American Sublime
13. The Critic and the Visual Arts
14. Art and the Communications Network
15. Systemic Painting
16. Art and the Expanding Audience
17. Pop Art: The Words
18. The Spectrum of Monochrome
19. Position Paper
20. Anthropology and Art Criticism
21. Systems of Cross-Reference in the Arts: On Translation
22. On Style. An Examination of Roy Lichtenstein’s Development, Despite a New Monograph on the Artist
23. Photo-Realism
24. The Function of the Art Critic
25. Artists as Writers, Part One: Inside Information
26. Realism as a Problem
27. De Kooning: Criticism and Art History
28. The Complex Present
29. Problems of Iconography and Style