Modern Art and the Object

Ellen H. Johnson, Oberlin College

• Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface -- Modern Art and the Object from Nineteenth-century Nature Painting to Conceptual Art -- The Object Painted and the Painted Object in Quiet Collision -- ’The Mountain in the Painting and the Painting in the Mountain’ -- The Painting Freed -- ’I am Nature’ -- Object as Art -- Art as Object -- The Object in Jeopardy -- Women Reshaping the Object