Includes index.

Cave and rock art -- Fired clay -- Land as material -- Statue -- Wall painting -- Scaling up -- Narrative -- Relief carving -- Body as surface -- The nude -- Contrapposto -- Propaganda -- Lost-wax carving -- Paper -- Memorial -- Architectural sculpture -- Word as image -- Colored glass -- Frame -- Icon -- Making books -- The grotesque -- Erotic art -- Handwriting -- Mosaic -- Multi-panel painting -- Miniatures -- Oil paint -- Window on the world -- Mathematics -- Linear perspective -- Trompe-l'oeil -- Color codes -- Allegory -- Portrait -- The sketch -- Mirrors -- Printmaking -- Chiaroscuro -- Anatomy -- Still life -- Copying -- Canvas -- Camera obscura -- Reinventing Greek art -- Landscape -- Series -- Collections -- History painting -- Whiteness -- Academies -- Romanticism -- Authenticity -- The artist -- Watercolor -- Confronting reality -- Medievalism -- Dealing -- Capturing the instant -- Assemblage -- Commercial design -- Paint in tubes -- Photography -- Art colonies -- Artificial light -- The unconscious -- The primitive -- Multiple viewpoints -- Collage -- Machine forms -- Abstract art -- Satire -- Found objects -- Kinetic art -- Scenes of daily life -- Installation -- Expressing inner states -- Plastics -- Protest -- Documentary -- Chance -- Shock -- Welding -- Pop -- Less is more -- Opticality -- Hallucinogens -- Performance art -- Personal is political -- Moving images -- Conceptual art -- Titles -- Body as medium -- Street art -- Globalization -- Digital technology -- Museum -- Negative space -- The internet -- Ephemerality.