Michael Asher and the conclusion of modernist sculpture -- Beuys: the twilight of the idol : preliminary notes for a critique -- Marcel Broodthaers: Open letters, industrial poems -- The museum and the monument : Daniel Buren's "Les couleurs / les formes" -- Memory lessons and history tableaux : James Coleman's archaelogy of spectacle -- Moments of history in the work of Dan Graham -- Hans Haacke: Memory and instrumental reason -- Hantaï / Villeglé and the dialectics of painting's dispersal -- Plenty or nothing : from Yves Klein's "Le vide" to Arman's "Le plein" -- Knight's moves : Situating the art/object -- Structure, sign, and reference in the work of David Lamelas -- Parody and appropriation in Francis Picabia, pop, and Sigmar Polke -- Readymade, photography, and painting in the painting of Gerhard Richter -- Process sculpture and film in Richard Serra's work -- Spero's other traditions -- Villeglé: from fragment to detail -- Andy Warhol's one-dimensional art 1956 - 1966 -- Robert Watts: Animate objects, inanimate subjects -- The posters of Lawrence Weiner