Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. PREFACE XI
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
5. INTRODUCTION XVII
6. The Hydrogen Jukebox 1
7. Rothko and Belief 9
8. Edvard Munch: The Missing Master 19
9. I Missed Punk 37
10. A Book by Larry Rivers 39
11. Warhol and Class Content 44
12. Dubuffet, 1980 53
13. First Voice Column 62
14. Clement Greenberg 65
15. Exxon Exhibition at the Guggenheim 69
16. Julian Schnabel and Susan Rothenberg 72
17. Arshile Gorky 76
18. L.A. Demystified! Art and Life in the Eternal Present 80
19. Affairs of the Heat 91
20. Disney Animators 94
21. Realism Again 97
22. H. C. Westermann 101
23. Only Connect: Bruce Nauman 105
24. "Les Drippings" in Paris 109
25. Cindy Sherman 114
26. David Salle 117
27. Why New French Art Is Lousy 121
28. Willem de Kooning 131
29. Robert Smithson's Writings 135
30. Documenta 7 141
31. Howard Finster 146
32. Clemente to Marden to Kiefer 149
33. Leon Golub 153
34. Decade of Wonders 158
35. The Grant Wood Revival 161
36. On Art and Artists: Peter Schjeldahl 167
37. Edouard Manet 189
38. Balthus 196
39. In Defense of Artistic Fashion 202
40. Minimalism 204
41. Philip Guston 227
42. Eric Fischi 232
43. Ed Ruscha: Traffic and Laughter 239
44. To Pico 248
45. The Daemon and Sigmar Polke 251
46. Adrian Saxe and the Smart Pot 256
47. The Immigrant Strain 262
48. Welcome to Helgaland 265
49. A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986 268
50. Our Kiefer 283
51. Hopperesque 293
52. Mike Kelley 300
53. Paintings by Aborigines 303
54. Jeff Koons 307
55. Courbet 311
56. De Kooning Alone 315
57. Treason of Clerks 317
58. Velazquez 320
59. Baselitz and Kippenberger 324
60. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PETER SCHJELDAHL'S WRITINGS ON ART 327
61. INDEX 353