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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Themes of Contemporary Art: What, Why, and How | |
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| A Brief Orientation | |
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| The Art World Expands | |
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| Overview of History and Art History, 1980-2004 | |
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| Old Media Thrive, New Media Make Waves | |
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| A Spectrum of Possibilities Emerges | |
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| Theory Flexes Its Muscles | |
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| Art Meets Contemporary Culture | |
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| Time | |
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| Time and Art History | |
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| Representing time | |
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| Embodying time | |
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| Changing Views of Time | |
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| Changing Views of the Past | |
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| Exhibits about Time | |
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| Exploring the Structure of Time | |
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| Fracturing time | |
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| Real time | |
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| Changing rhythm | |
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| Exploring endlessness | |
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| Revisiting the Past | |
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| Recovering history | |
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| Reshuffling the past | |
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| Reframing the present | |
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| Commemorating the Past | |
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| PROFILE: Brian Tolle | |
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| Place | |
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| Places Have Meanings | |
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| Places Have Value | |
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| Exhibits about Place | |
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| History's Influence | |
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| (Most) places exist in space | |
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| The work of art exists in a place | |
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| Looking at Places | |
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| Looking Out for Places | |
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| Constructing (and Deconstructing) Artificial Places | |
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| Placeless Spaces | |
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| What's Public? What's Private? | |
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| In-between Places | |
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| PROFILE: Janet Cardiff | |
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| Identity | |
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| Identity in Art History | |
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| Identity Is Communal or Relational | |
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| Social and cultural identities | |
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| Identity politics | |
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| Identity Is Constructed | |
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| Essentialism | |
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| Difference | |
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| Identity is Not Fixed | |
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| Sexual Identity Is Diverse | |
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| Hybridity | |
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| Reinventing Identities | |
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| PROFILE: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith | |
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| The Body | |
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| Past Figurative Art | |
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| A New Spin on the Body | |
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| The body is a battleground | |
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| The body is a sign | |
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| People are bodies | |
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| The Body Beautiful | |
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| Different bodies | |
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| Body parts | |
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| Mortal Bodies | |
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| Sexual Bodies | |
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| The gaze | |
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| Sexual pleasure and desire | |
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| Sex and violence | |
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| Posthuman Bodies | |
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| PROFILE: Shirin Neshat | |
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| Language | |
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| Words with Art: A History | |
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| Art with Words: A History | |
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| Recent Theories of Language | |
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| Reasons for Using Language | |
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| Exhibitions and Publications Concerning Language in Art | |
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| Language Makes Meaning | |
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| Language Takes Form | |
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| Transparency and translucency | |
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| Spatiality and physicality | |
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| Books made by artists | |
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| Art made with books | |
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| Wielding the Power of Language | |
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| Confronting the Challenge of Translation | |
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| Using Text in the Information Age | |
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| PROFILE: Ken Aptekar | |
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| Spirituality | |
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| A Short History | |
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| A Few Strategies | |
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| Manipulating forms, materials, and processes | |
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| Manipulating meanings and minds | |
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| Finding Faith and Harboring Doubt | |
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| Expressing Religious Identities | |
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| Facing Death, Doom, and Destruction | |
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| Mingling the Sacred and the Secular | |
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| PROFILE: Jose Bedia | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |