Director's foreword / Jock Reynolds -- Acknowledgments / Jennifer R. Gross -- An artists' museum / Jennifer R. Gross -- Joseph Stella and the "conjunction of WORLDS" / Ruth L. Bohan -- The artist readymade / Marcel Duchamp and the Société Anonyme / David Joselit -- "A big cosmic force" / Katherine S. Dreier and the Russian/Soviet avant-garde / Dickran Tashjian -- "One big painting" : a new view of modern art at the Brooklyn Museum / Kristina Wilson -- Art as experience / Katherine S. Dreier and the Educational Mission of the Société Anonyme / Susan Greenberg -- Believe me, faithfully yours / Jennifer R. Gross -- The Société Anonyme collection come to Yale / Elise K. Kenney -- The artists' view : Sylvia and Robert Mangold on the Société Anonyme Collection / Jennifer R. Gross with Susan Greenberg -- Artist Biographies / Susan Greenberg, Kristin P. Henry, Bryony W. Roberts -- Also in exhibition