The 1910s: When human nature changed : 1. The impulse to express ; 2. Futurism and cubism ; 3. Russian experiments ; 4. The Dada revolt
The 1920s: Looking forward, looking back : 5. Modern classicisms ; 6. Surrealism and painting ; 7. The elementarist ideal ; 8. Germany and Russia in the 1920s
The 1930s: The 'low dishonest' decade : 9. Surrealism: objects and sculpture ; 10. Battles over 'abstract' art ; 11. Art and politics in the 1930s ; 12. Modern art in America
The 1940s: Transatlantic exchanges : 13. Geometries of hope ; 14. Art between Paris and New York
The 1950s: Climates of the Cold War : 15. Informel international ; 16. London in the 1950s ; 17. In the vernacular: beat and assemblage ; 18. Hard-edge, kinetic and minimal form
The 1960s: After modern art.