Chapter one:Objects, toys. -- Lobster telephone / Salvador Dali ; -- Time transfixed / René Magritte ; -- Lobster trap and fish tail / Alexander Calder ; -- Flag above white with collage / Jasper Johns ; -- Earth eclipse / Joseph Cornell ; -- Homage to New York / Jean Tinguely ; -- Pancakes and sausages / Claes Oldernburg ; -- "Monument" for V. Tatlin / Dan Flavin ; -- Untitled (structure that eats salad) / Giovanni Anselmo ; -- Campbell's soup / Andy Warhol ; -- No title / Eva Hesse ; -- More love hours than can ever be repaid and the wages of sin / Mike Kelley ; -- "Untitled" (USA Today) / Felix Gonzalez-Torres ; -- Horses running endlessly / Gabriel Orozco ; -- Bidibidobidiboo / Maurizio Cattelan ; -- Meringue mix / Wayne Thiebaud ; -- Untitled (bird, nesting dolls, vase) / Haim Steinbach ; -- The ego and the id / Franz West ; -- Cuckoo in the nest / Gary Hume ; -- World leaders attend the marriage... / Grayson Perry ; -- Massachusetts chandelier / Pipilotti Rist -- Chapter two: Expressions, scribbles. -- Improvisation 21A / Wassily Kandinsky ; -- Cut with the kitchen knife / Hannah Hoch ; -- Head (biomorphic abstraction) / Hans Arp ; -- Hirondelle amour / Joan Miró ; -- Painting / Wols ; -- Onement / Barnett Newman ; -- Chief / Franz Kline ; -- One: number 31 / Jackson Pollock ; -- The dog / Alberto Giacometti ; -- The marriage of reason and squalor II / Frank Stella ; -- In the beginning was the image / Asger Jorn ; -- Untitled (grey) / Gerhard Richter ; -- Untitled / Mark Rothko ; -- Corner piece / Lynda Benglis ; -- Room with chair / Howard Hodgkin ; -- Trademarks / Vito Acconci ; -- 24 hour psycho / Douglas Gordon ; -- Tree of life / John Hoyland ; -- Beautiful, pop, spinning ice creamy, whirling, expanding painting / Damien Hirst ; -- Work no. 227: the lights going on and off / Martin Creed ; -- Samuel Beckett / Maggi Hambling -- Chapter three: Provocation, tantrums. -- Magical bishop costume / Hugo Ball ; -- Fountain / Marcel Duchamp ; -- God / Morton Livingstone Schamberg ; -- Abstract composition / Alexander Rodchenko ; -- The Cacodylic eye / Francis Picabia ; -- Year after year / Arshile Gorky ; -- Full-up / Arman ; -- Spatial concept "waiting" / Lucio Fontana ; -- Artist's shit / Piero Manzoni ; -- Still and chew: art and culture / John Jatham ; -- Untitled (12 horses) / Janniz Kounellis ; -- Class fool / Paul McCarthy ; -- Works in wealth III / Stephan Huber ; -- Fleeting monument / Cornelia Parker ; -- Untitled / Robert Gober ; -- My bed / Tracey Emin ; -- Bag / Gavin Turk -- Chapter four: Landscapes, playscapes. -- Suprematist composition: white on white / Kasimir Malevich ; -- The factory / Maurice Utrillo ; -- Counter-composition of dissonances, XVI / Theo van Doesburg ; -- Goin' fishin' / Arthur Dove ; -- Equivalent / Alfred Stieglitz ; -- The snail / Henri Matisse ; -- Yard / Allan Kaprow ; -- Winding towers / Bernd and Hilla Becher ; -- Map of broken glass (Atlantis) / Robert Smithson ; -- Untitled (8) I / Jim Dine ; -- Uncarved blocks / Carl Andre ; -- New stones, newton's tones / Tony Cragg ; -- Wayland's song / Anselm Kiefer ; -- Crack is wack / Keith Haring ; -- Geneva circle two / Richard Long ; -- Footsteps / Christian Marclay ; -- Concrete cabin / Peter Doig ; -- Empirical construction, Istanbul / Julie Mehretu ; -- Dots obsession - infinity mirrored room / Yayoi Kusama ; -- Sunflower seeds / Ai Weiwei -- Chapter five: People, monsters. -- The scream / Edvard Munch ; -- Portrait of Juan Gris / Amedeo Modigliani ; -- Angelus novus / Paul Klee ; -- Woman / André Masson ; -- Reading / Pablo Picasso ; -- Head of a hostage / Jean Fautrier ; -- Dandy / Jean Dubuffet ; -- Woman I / Willem de Kooning ; -- Olympia / Cy Twombly ; -- Woodmen / Georg Baselitz ; -- P.o.th.A.a.Vfb / Dieter Roth ; -- Singing sculpture / Gilbert & George ; -- Mouse on a table / Karel Appel ; -- Vertical roll / Joan Jonas ; -- In the studio / Philip Guston ; -- Untitled / Kiki Smith ; -- Portrait of R. Huber / Thomas Ruff ; -- The violinist / Dora Holzhandler ; -- Sony Levi / Martin Maloney ; -- Maman / Louise Bourgeois.