“…In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1 : Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms : the metamorphosis of ordinary things / Nicola Levell -- Chapter 2 : Re-mastering MoMA : Kirk Varnedoe's 'Artist's Choice' series / Lewis Kachur -- Chapter 3 : 'Both object and subject' : MoMA's Burton on Brancusi / Cher Krause Knight -- Chapter 4 : Curating between worlds : how digital collaborations become curative projects / Dew Harrison -- Chapter 5 : Erasure : curator as artist / Bruce Checefsky -- Chapter 6 : Say my name / Branda L. …”