Prologue: Fragmentary histories of hemispheric art, 1910-1960 : Exhibiting modern art, 1910-1960
End of the story. 1 The expanding mind: symbolist imagery in the Americas : American decadence and redemption, c.1910-1930
North American visionaries
Cannibals in the southern cone: Alejandro Xul Solar and Tarsila do Amaral. 2 A sense of place: landscapes, cityscapes, and topographies of the self : The year 1916
South of the U.S. border. 3 Visualizing blackness in the Americas : Blackness in the modernist imagination
Blackness, dance, music, and ritual
black faces, black bodies
Black abstractions. 4 Cross-border dialogues : Revolutionary art: between exaltation and despair
Public arts on both sides of the border
Muralism, teaching, and learning. 5 Labor, anxiety, and a new social order : Anxiety
Exile and migration. 6 The liberated line: toward abstracted form : Alternative histories
Surrealism into abstraction
Site-specific abstraction. 7 The cube, sphere, and cone; constructed abstractions in the Americas : American responses to geometric form, c.1910-1920
Joaquin Torres-García, the Torres-García workshop, and arithmetical proportion
Río de la Plata: beyond Torres - experimentation in the 1940s
Havana - Paris - New York - Montreal. 8 Modern visionaries and the intuitive imagination : Trans-American surrealism
The 1940s and 50s in Latin America: surrealist affinities
From Mexico to Manhattan and beyond
Dance, visual art, and visionary modernity
Popular arts, the intuitive eye, and modernity. Epilogue: Into the future : Pop art and revolution
Environments and total participation