THE AVANT-GARDE AND MODERNISM: Counter-avant-garde; Looking for the avant-garde; Modern and postmodern; Beginnings of Modernism; STATES OF CRITICISM: Necessity of "formalism"; Can taste be objective?; Abstract, representational, and so forth; Detached observations; Seminar; States of criticism; Intermedia; To cope with decandence; ART AND CULTURE: Old India: her monuments; Influences of Matisse, Four Scottish painters; Picasso; Clyfford Still; The golden floating world of Sotatsu; Glass as high art; Art and culture; Drawing; Response to "New York in the eighties"; INTERVIEWS: Clement Greenberg; A conversation with Clement Greenberg in three parts; An interview with Clement Greenberg; Clement Greenberg: Modernism or barbarism; Clement Greenberg: the last interview.