New paradigm: The end of the modern era ; Political absolutism ; The American War of Independence and the French Revolution ; The industrial revolution ; European imperialism ; The socialist ideologies ; The position of the artist in 19th-century Paris ; Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes ; Neoclassicism and history painting ; The quest for meaning: from Romanticism to Symbolism ; Edouard Manet and the primacy of the present ; Claud Monet and the primacy of light ; Georges Seurat and the primacy of analysis ; Paul Cezanne and the primacy of synthesis ; Vincent van Gogh and the primacy of love ; Paul Gauguin and the primacy of longing ; Edvard Munch and the primacy of fear ; James Ensor and the primacy of delusion ; Henry Rousseau and the primacy of belief ; George Braque, Pablo Picasso, and the primacy of form ; Piet Mondrian and the primacy of the spiritual ; Henry Matisse and the primacy of color ; Wassily Kandinsky and the primacy of instinct ; The world view of modern physics ; Quantum theory ; The special theory of relativity ; Philosophical aspects of the new physics ; The social revolution ; The first World War ; The Russian October Revolution -- Crisis and renewal: The idealization of progress: Futurism ; The mystification of progress: Suprematism ; The refusal of progress: Dadaism ; National socialism ; Hitler's apprenticeship ; The second World War ; The credo of the trivial: American pop art ; The myth of America and British pop art ; The reality of illusion: Hyperrealism ; The intrinsic value of color: Post-painterly abstraction ; On the way to open society ; The collapse of the Soviet Union ; The media revolution ; The art world in the 1980s

1. Art
2. Modern -- History