Contents: Part I: Early Aesthetic Theories - 1. The Shadow Stage, Victor Stoichita. 2. The Inventor of Painting, Hubert Damisch. 3. Roman Painting, Donald Strong. Part II: Epistemologies of Painting - 4. Giotto's Joy, Julia Kristeva. 5. A Confrontation of 'Word and Image' in My Name Is Red, Feride Çiçekoglu. 6. Las Meninas, Michel Foucault. 7. The Nature of Picturing in the North, Svetlana Alpers. 8. Barthes and the Lesson of Saenredam, Howard Caygill. 9. Pictures and Ideas: Chardin's A Lady Taking Tea, Michael Baxandall. Part III: Painting as a Medium - 10. On Painting, Walter Benjamin. 11. Cézanne's Letters, Paul Cézanne to Emile Bernard. 12. Percept, Affect and Concept, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. 13. The Precious Little Patch of Yellow Wall, Marcel Proust. Part IV: Artist, Artwork and Viewer - 14. The Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari. 15. The Idea of Painting, John Ruskin. 16. On Pictorial Representation, Richard Wollheim. 17. Easel Painting and Pictorial Order, Thomas Puttfarken. 18. Notes on Two Women Surrealist Painters, Dawn Ades. 19. Crossing Country: Tribal Modernism and Kuninjku Bark Painting, Ian McLean. Volume 2: Modern Painting - Part I: New Ways of Seeing - 1. The Salon and Early Art Criticism, Denis Diderot. 2. The Masterpiece, Emile Zola. 3. Manet in His Generation, Michael Fried. 4. Courbet, Incommensurate and Emergent, James D. Herbert. 5. Géricault, the Panorama, and Sites of Reality in the Early Nineteenth Century, Jonathan Crary. 6. The Art of Orientalist Painting, Emily M. Weeks. Part II: Painting's Autonomy - 7. Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg. 8. Jackson Pollock: The Unhappy Consciousness, T. J. Clark. 9. The Death of Sensuous Particulars: T. J. Clark and Abstract Expressionism, J. M. Bernstein. 10. Experimental Painting, Stephen Bann. 11. On the Surface of Painting, Charles Harrison. Part III: The Expanded Medium - 12. Last Exit: Painting, Thomas Lawson. 13. Painting as Model, Yve-Alain Bois. 14. Richard Hamilton, or the Tabular Image, Hal Foster. 15. Dansaekhwa: Korean Monochrome Painting, Simon Morley. 16. Noncompositional Effects, Howard Singerman. Volume 3: Critical Perspectives - Part I: Critical Theories - 1. Immanuel Kant and the Bo(a)rders of Art History, Mark A. Cheetham. 2. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde, Jean-François Lyotard. 3. The Ideal as Such, G. W. F. Hegel. 4. Naturalism as Nationalism in the Study of Early Netherlandish Painting, Keith Moxey. 5. Image and Gesture, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Part II: Painting and Language - 6. Is Painting a Language? Roland Barthes. 7. This is not a Painting, Mieke Bal. 8. Colophons, Reception, and Chinese Painting, De-nin D. Lee. 9. Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language, W. J. T. Mitchell. 10. Painting in the Text, Jacques Rancière. Part III: Phenomenology - 11. The Origin of the Work of Art, Martin Heidegger. 12. Decisiveness and Undecidability, Matthew Biro. 13. Beyond 'Cézanne's Doubt', Sandra Alexander. 14. The Eye and the Hand, Gilles Deleuze. 15. The Gaze in the Expanded Field, Norman Bryson. 16. The Case for the External Spectator, Ken Wilder. Part IV: Painting Reframed - 17. The Waning of Affect, Fredric Jameson. 18. Anamnesis: Of the Visible, Jean-François Lyotard. 19. Interpreting/Painting and the Art of Deconstruction, Andrew Benjamin. 20. A Theory of /Cloud/, Hubert Damisch. 21. Bodies, Aesthetics and Feminism, Rosemary Betterton. Volume 4: Processes and Strategies - Part I: Post-Medium - 1. The Value of Painting: Notes on Unspecifity, Indexicality and Highly Valuable Quasi-Persons, Isabelle Graw. 2. Rehearsing Doubt: Recent Developments in Painting-After-Photography, Martin Herbert. 3. Painting After Performance, Catherine Wood. 4. Painting Beside Itself, David Joselit. Part II: Process and Production - 5. Cy Twombly: Works on Paper, Roland Barthes. 6. Philip Guston and the Crisis of Image, Robert Zaller. 7. Unknown Knowns: Jenny Holzer's Redaction Paintings and the History of the War on Terror, Robert Bailey. 8. The Most Wanted Painting, Arthur C. Danto. 9. Touch Screen, Bernice Donszelmann. Part III: The Site of Painting - 10. The Sight of Death, T. J. Clark. 11. Painting and Time, John Berger. 12. Paul Klee: An Art of Privacy? Annie Bourneuf. 13. Medium and Membrane, Jörg Heiser. 14. Notes on the Tableau, Laura Lisbon. 15. The Moral Economy of the Street: The Bombay Paintings of Gieve Patel and Sudhir Patwardhan, Karin Zitzewitz. (^Available November 2015^)

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