Part I. Narrating the Hand: 1. Pail for Ganymede: Rauschenberg's sculpture
2. Texas, Japan, etc.: Rauschenberg's sense of place
3. The art of Cy Twombly
4. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered
5. Narrating the hand: Cy Twombly and Mary Kelly
6. When is a door not a door?
7. Frame of mind: interpreting Jasper Johns
8. Jasper's patterns
9. The specter of art hype and the ghost of Yves Klein
Part II. Expressionism and Other Expressivites: 10. Harold Rosenberg: transforming the earth
11. The art of Philip Guston
12. Gestural aftermath
13. Contesting leisure: Alex Katz and Eric Fischl
Part III. Ideas of Order: 14. Indeterminacy meets encyclopedia: the art of Kestutis Zapkus
15. A Greenberg retrospective
16. Abstractions: Barnett Newman and James Turrell
17. Literature of silence (Nancy Haynes)
18. Boulders from Flatland: the drawings of Jene Highstein
19. Box, aspects of (Donald Judd)
20. Quality through quantity
21. Maquettes and models: Siah Armajani and Hannes Bruner
22. Ideas of order (Sol Le Witt)
23. Contextualizing 'The Open Work'.
