Part One History As Context: Expanding Modernist Form; Chapter 1 Heads It's Form, Tails It's Not Content; Chapter 2 Seeking the Primal Through Paint: The Monochrome Icon; Part Two The World and Its Difference; Chapter 3 Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief: Primitivism in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art; Chapter 4 History, Quality, Globalism; Chapter 5 Arrivederci Venice: The Third World Biennials; Part Three The Self and Subjectivity; Chapter 6 I Am, Is a Vain Thought; Chapter 7 Penelope's Night Work: Negative Thinking In Greek Philosophy; Chapter 8 Empyrrhical Thinking, and why kant can't; Part Four Reincarnations and Visitations: Modernism and Postmodernism All Over Again; Chapter 9 From On The Manner of Addressing Clouds;