| List of Illustrations | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction: Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author | 1 |
| Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | 25 |
| Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an Allegory of Nostaligia | 47 |
| Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | 71 |
| Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu) | 91 |
| The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet's Bar | 115 |
| On Manet's Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergere | 142 |
| Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere | 164 |
| Dumbshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference | 189 |
| Privilege and the Illusion of the Real | 214 |
| In Front of Manet's Bar: Subverting the "Natural" | 233 |
| Manet's Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel | 250 |
| The "View from Elsewhere": Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire | 278 |
| A Select Bibliography for Methodological Issues in Art History | 315 |
