Table of Contents: “…From Cloister to court/Renaissance to Rococo Italy -- Domestic preoccupations/Dutch and Flemish painting in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries -- Virtue and virtuosity/Academic traditions in French art of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth centuries -- On the face of it/The British portrait tradition -- Slices of life/Picturing lives and landscape -- American pioneers/Expressing a new spirit -- Past perfect/The Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic -- En Plein Air/The impressionists and their circle -- Paris/The turn of the century -- Beyond Europe/The commonwealth of modernism -- Northern lights/Painters of Scandinavia -- Independent expressions/The Dilemma of autonomy -- Collective efforts/Art and war in Northern Europe -- Smashing the past, designing the future/From cubism to constructivism and beyond -- Complementary realities/Early abstraction ontwo continents -- Dada and surrealism/REports from the unconscious -- Making gestures/Abstract expressionism -- Essence matters/Abstraction and nonobjective painting -- An art of one's own/Latin American painters and sculptor's -- Figuring it out/Twentieth-century representation -- And justice for all/Taking on the culture coast to coast -- On and off the wall/Reinventing the mainstream -- Moving heaven and earth/Sculpture abstractions and environments -- Just folks/Traditional art and artists.…”