Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 16-July 26, 2000. Part of the series of exhibitions entitled MoMA2000.

Drawing Lesson I -- Foreword -- Preface & acknowledgments -- Modern art despite modernism. Pt. 1. Typologies & twists ; Heads ; Pt. 2. Backward march! ; Femmes fatales ; Pt. 3. Fences Down -- Plates. The School of Paris ; Surrealism ; Metaphysical painting & Valori plastici ; Neue Sachlichkeit & German figuration ; Neo-romanticism ; British figuration ; Latin American figuration ; Depression era realism & the American scene ; Postwar European figuration ; Postwar figuration in the Americas ; Post modernism ; Drawing Lession II -- Index of illustrations -- Credits.