A "straight theory" of bourgeois pleasure in later modernist painting -- Still lifes and centerfolds : the negation of the feminine in Greenberg's reading of Matisse -- Fragmented bodies and canonical nudes : painting and reading de Kooning's Woman series -- Pollock and Krasner : touching and transcending the boundaries of abstract expressionism -- How formalism lost its body but kept its gender : Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland in the sixties
