Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.

'What is art?' 'Is that art?' -- 1. Images and Marks -- Original and image -- imitation of nature -- Paintings and marks -- Style and substitution -- Creation and contemplation -- 2. Sight and Knowledge -- Portrayal and observation -- Painting as model for knowledge -- Photography and Realism -- Sensation -- Light and the observer -- 3. Form and Time -- Form and bodies -- Time and stories -- Modernity and history -- Modernity and art -- Process, impression, sequence -- Action and form -- Information and performance -- 4. Expression -- meanings of expression -- Markets and persons -- Colour -- Mind and spirit -- Bodies -- Communication -- 5. Word Art -- Art and non-art -- Art as freedom -- Cubism -- Abstraction -- Fun -- Skills -- 6. Representation -- Levels of representation -- Deconstruction -- Pictures and theories -- Painting now -- Picturing painting.