Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
Inbetween being (t)here: a scenario of thoughts on the (im)possibilities of art -- The Fautrier yardstick -- The unredeemed in Joseph Beuys's expanded art -- Marcel Broodthaers's determinate negation -- Gerhard Richter: painting's responsibility -- Brice Marden: ensouled form -- Howard Hodgkin: the carnal presence of emotion -- A.R. Penck: the import of the real -- Don Van Vliet: coherent deformation -- After nihilism -- Francesco Clemente: be a curtain and tear your self apart -- Donald Baechler: on line -- Julian Schnabel's intensity program -- Walter Dahn: blocs of sensations -- Georg Dukoupil: the trivial position -- Dahn & Dokoupil: masks of (dis)enchancement -- Martin Kippenberger: art's filthy lesson -- David Salle: on stage -- Ross Bleckner: traces of deathlessness -- Andreas Schulze: the family idiot -- Günther Förg and Philip Taaffe: we are not afraid -- Philip Taaffe: the other (and the) ornament -- Rosemarie Trockel's irreducible difference
Georg Herold: overexposing and counter-illuminating the theater of meaning -- Cindy Sherman: portraits of becoming ano(r)mal -- Siegfried Anzinger: per-figures of (possible) painting -- George Condo: (ir)real presences -- Albert Oehlen: beauty is a rare thing -- "Blindmen, throw away your canes."