Karel Appel Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne Book

	List of Illustrations
	Publication Sources
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Idiosyncrasy: The Final Frontier	1
1	The Opera Is Over: A Critique of Eighties Sensibility	11
2	The Appropriation of Marginal Art in the 1980s	19
3	The Magic Kingdom of the Museum	28
4	Sizing Art Up (and Down): The Issue of Quality	39
5	The Short, Happy Life of the Work of Art: From Artifact to Art to Arty Fact	48
6	The End of Creative Imagination	54
7	Marcel Duchamp, Imposter Artist	64
8	Act Out, Turn Off	71
9	The Horse in the Industrial Age: Deborah Butterfield's Sculptures	79
10	Improbable Portraits: Gerge Condo's Drolleries	87
11	Paradox Perfected: Agnes Denes's Pyramids	109
12	The Cunning of Unreason: Charles Hinman's Absurdist Constructions	121
13	Alfred Jensen: Systems Mystagogue	141
14	Wolfgang Laib's Mystical Revolution	147
15	Carlo Maria Mariani: The Reenactment of Beauty	153
16	Robert Mapplethorpe: Aestheticising the Perverse	177
17	Jackson Pollock: Late Works, 1952-1955	186
18	Voluptuous Technology: Keith Sonnier's Painterly Sculpture	204
19	Jorge Tacla's Irreality	229
20	The Psychopolitical Automatism of Antoni Tapies	240
21	William Tucker: The Fated Return of the Body	252
22	Bill Viola: The Mystical Defense Against the Feeling of Being Mad	258
23	Cooling Excitement: Eros and Self in Paul Waldman's Art	267
24	The Great Divide	279
25	Art: Sublimated Expression or Transitional Experience? The Examples of Van Gogh and Mondrian	286
26	The Expessive Gaze	300
27	Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in an Arranged Marriage	314
28	In Search of the Visionary Image	317
29	Envy and Gratitude: The Ambivalence of Psychoanalysis to Art	324
30	The Avant-Garde Complex and the Postmodern Perplex	334
31	Mystic and Maid	356
	Index	365