Contents:

Introduction: What, Where and When:
How and Why We Look at Works of Art, Tony Godfrey

Section I: What?
John Singleton Copley's Miniature Self-Portrait and Portrait of Moses Gill, Carrie Rebora Barratt

The Countess of Dysart's Backstools, Megan Aldrich

What's in a Box? The Many Layers of a Seventeenth-Century Lacquer Casket, Julia Hutt

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs, 1965, Eugene Tan

David Reed: No. 286-2, 1990-2, Tony Godfrey

Section II: Where?
A L'Enseigne de Gersaint by Jean-Antoine Watteau: From Shop Sign to Masterpiece, Catherine Morel

Kabuto with Symbolic Tower and Kazari: Displaying the Decorative in Edo Japan, James Malpas

The Eroticised Victorian Child: Mrs Holford's Daughter, Juliet Hacking

127 Cuerpos: Teresa Margolles and the Aesthetics of Commemoration, Anthony Downey

Section III: When?
The Jenkins Venus: Reception in the Art World and the Market, David Bellingham

On the Wings of a Dove: Jacob Epstein's Doves - Third Version, 1914-15, Bernard Vere

Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair: A Design Icon of the 1920s, Elisabeth Darby

Gerhard Richter's Tante Marianne Revisited, Anna Moszynska

Further Reading & Index

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