The lure of Leonardo / John Brewer
Dan Graham Inc. and the fetish of self-property / Emily Apter
Quiccheberg and the copious object : Wenzel Jamnitzer's silver writing box / Mark A. Meadow
Naturalezas Mexicanas : objects as cultural signifiers in Mexican art, c. 1760-1875 / Edward J. Sullivan
Material as language in contemporary art / Christian Scheidemann
Art in the age of visual culture : France in the 1930s / Martha Ward
Photography's expanded field / George Baker
Some object histories and the materiality of the sculptural object / Malcolm Baker
Encountering the object / Karen Lang
The object as subject / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
The surrealist situation of the photographed object / Margaret Iversen
Eros and the readymade / Helen Malesworth
Responding to allure / Martha Buskirk
The lure of the object / Marcia Pointon
Afterword / Stephen Melville.