The front door to understanding / John Elderfield -- Texts and plates -- Modern pioneers: from 1880 into the twentieth century -- Matisse, Picasso, modernism: art in Europe through World War I -- Fauvism, symbolism, expressionism -- Picasso and Cubism -- Futurism -- Matisse -- Crosscurrents -- Age of "isms": modernisms between the two world wars -- Dada -- Suprematism and constructivism -- Mondrian and de Stijl -- Realisms -- Surrealism -- Transatlantic modern: Europe, America -- Abstraction and figuration -- Abstract expressionism -- After abstract expressionism -- Crosscurrents -- Art of the real: pop, minimal, 1960s -- Pop art -- Abstract and minimalist painting and sculpture -- After minimalism -- Untitled (contemporary): modern art since 1970.