| Introduction | 9 |
| Art History: Making the Visible Legible | 13 |
| Ch. 1 | Art as History | |
| Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture | 31 |
| Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art History | 40 |
| Patterns of Intention | 52 |
| Ch. 2 | Aesthetics | |
| What is Enlightenment? | 70 |
| The Critique of Judgement | 76 |
| Philosophy of Fine Art | 97 |
| Ch. 3 | Style | |
| Principles of Art History | 115 |
| 'Form', Nineteenth-Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description | 127 |
| Style | 143 |
| Style | 150 |
| Ch. 4 | History as an Art | |
| Leading Characteristics of the Late Roman Kunstwollen | 169 |
| Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America | 177 |
| Warburg's Concept of Kunstwissenschaft and its Meaning for Aesthetics | 207 |
| Retrieving Warburg's Tradition | 215 |
| Ch. 5 | Mechanisms of Meaning: Iconography and Semiology | |
| Semiotics and Iconography | 234 |
| Semiotics and Art History: A Discussion of Context and Senders | 242 |
| Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition | 257 |
| Toward a Theory of Reading in the Visual Arts: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds | 263 |
| Ch. 6 | Modernity and its Discontents | |
| Sculpture in the Expanded Field | 281 |
| What is an Author? | 299 |
| The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism | 315 |
| Mapping the Postmodern | 329 |
| Ch. 7 | The Gendered Subject | |
| The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission | 344 |
| Sexuality and/in Representation: Five British Artists | 356 |
| No Essential Femininity | 370 |
| Postfeminism, Feminist Pleasures, and Embodied Theories of Art | 383 |
| Ch. 8 | Deconstruction and the Limits of Interpretation | |
| The Temptation of New Perspectives | 401 |
| The Origin of the Work of Art | 413 |
| The Still Life as a Personal Object - A Note on Heidegger and van Gogh | 427 |
| Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing [Pointure] | 432 |
| Ch. 9 | The Other: Art History and/as Museology | |
| Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order | 455 |
| The Art Museum as Ritual | 473 |
| Inventing the 'Postcolonial': Hybridity and Constituency in Contemporary Curating | 486 |
| Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism | 498 |
| The Art of Art History | 507 |
| Afterword | 526 |
| Notes | 528 |
| List of Texts | 569 |
| List of Illustrations | 571 |
| Biographical Notes | 574 |
| Glossary | 576 |
| Index | 584 |
Format: Paperback, 595 pages
