Intro; Contents; Acknowledgement; List of Illustrations; Notes on Text and Illustrations; Introduction. Mikhail Lifshitz: A Communist Contemporary (Riff); Foreword; Chapter 1. Myth and Reality: The Legend of Cubism; 'Scandal in Art'; Two Appraisals of Cubism; G.V. Plekhanov and Cubism; The Terms 'Reactionary' and 'Bourgeois'; The Revolt against Things; Fusion with Objects as an Ideal; The Evolution of Cubism; Painting in the Other World; Chapter 2. The Phenomenology of the Soup Can: The Quirks of Taste; The Economy of Painting; Reflection's Malaise; Conclusion
Chapter 3. Why am I Not a Modernist?References; Index; Illustration Section