Numerals in italics refer to illustrations.

  1. Abstract Expressionism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    1. see also Action Painting
  2. abstract painting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. see also abstraction in art; Action Painting; geometric abstraction; informel painting; painterly abstraction
  3. abstraction (philosophical) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  4. abstraction in art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19;
    1. see also abstract painting; geometric abstraction; informel painting; painterly abstraction
  5. ACA gallery, New York 1, 2
  6. Action Painting 1;
    1. see also Rosenberg, Harold
  7. Adamic, Louis 1
  8. Adams, Ansel 1
  9. Adirondack Club 1
  10. Adler, Jankel 1
  11. Adornian theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. see also Adorno, Theodor W.; post-Adornian theory
  12. Adorno, Theodor W. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
    1. aesthetics 1;
    2. concept of autonomy 1;
    3. Aesthetic Theory 1, 2, 3, 4;
    4. Dialectic of Enlightenment 1, 2;
    5. Entkunstung 1, 2;
    6. In Search of Wagner 1;
    7. Minima Moralia 1;
    8. ‘Was Spengler Right?’ 1
  13. Aesthetic Movement 1;
    1. see also aestheticism; art for art’s sake
  14. aesthetic subjectivity 1;
    1. see also subjecthood, subjectivity
  15. aestheticism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    1. see also Aesthetic Movement; art for art’s sake
  16. aesthetics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30;
    1. critique of 1;
    2. Marx’s concept of 1, 2
  17. Agassiz, Louis 1
  18. Agee, James 1;
    1. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 1, 2;
    2. see also Evans, Walker
  19. agency 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23;
    1. see also social agency
  20. agitprop 1, 2;
    1. see also propaganda
  21. Alberti, Leon Battista 1
  22. Aldine: The Art Journal of America 1
  23. Alexander, Gertrud 1, 2
  24. Ali, Muhammad 1, 2
  25. alienation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
  26. All Russian Academy of Arts 1
  27. Allen, Grant 1
  28. Allgemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (Federal School of the German Trade Union Federation) 1
  29. Alma-Tadema, Lawrence 1
  30. Altdorfer, Albrecht The Battle of Alexander 1
  31. alterity 1;
    1. see also Other, the
  32. Althusser, Louis 1, 2, 3, 4;
    1. see also Althusserian theory; post-Althusserian theory
  33. Althusserian theory 1, 2;
    1. see also Althusser, Louis; post-Althusserian theory
  34. American Artists’ Congress 1, 2, 3, 4
  35. American Artists’ Congress Against War and Fascism 1, 2
  36. American Civil War 1, 2, 3, 4
  37. American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
  38. American Federation of Labor (AFL) 1, 2, 3
  39. American Fund for Public Service 1
  40. American Labor Party 1
  41. American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences 1
  42. American Writers’ Congress 1
  43. An American Group, Inc. 1
  44. anarchism, anarchists 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  45. Anderson, Perry 1, 2
  46. Anderson, Sherwood 1
  47. Annan, Thomas 1
  48. Antal, Frederick 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  49. anti-aesthetic mode in art 1, 2
  50. anti-capitalism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
  51. anti-communism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  52. anti-dialecticalism 1
  53. anti-fascism, anti-fascist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  54. anti-feminism 1, 2
  55. anti-Hegelianism 1
  56. anti-historicism 1, 2
  57. anti-Marxism, anti-Marxist 1, 2
  58. anti-Semitism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  59. anti-socialism 1
  60. anti-Stalinism 1, 2, 3, 4
  61. Apollinaire, Guillaume 1;
    1. ‘Merlin et la Vielle Femme’ 1
  62. applied arts 1, 2
  63. appropriation art 1, 2
  64. architecture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
  65. Arendt, Hannah 1
  66. Armory Show, New York 1
  67. Arnaud, Noel 1
  68. Arnold, Karl 1;
    1. ‘Berliner Bilder: Grenadierstrasse’ 1
  69. Arnott, David 1
  70. Art and Language 1
  71. art as commodity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  72. Art Association of Montreal 1
  73. Art Bulletin 1
  74. Art Deco 1
  75. art for art’s sake 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. see also aestheticism; Aesthetic Movement
  76. Art Front 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  77. Art History 1, 2
  78. art market 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
  79. Artforum 1, 2
  80. Artist’s Fund Society 1
  81. artists’ groups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
  82. Artists’ League of America 1
  83. Artists’ Union 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  84. ARTnews 1, 2, 3
  85. ARTnews Annual 1
  86. Arts Magazine 1
  87. Ashcan School 1
  88. ASSO see Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler Deutschlands (ARBKD)
  89. Association of Art Historians (AAH) 1
  90. Association of German Revolutionary Artists see Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler Deutschlands (ARBKD)
  91. Assoziation revolutionärer bildender Künstler Deutschlands (ARBKD) 1, 2
  92. Atget, Eugène 1
  93. Atkins, Guy 1
  94. Atkinson, Terry 1
  95. Atlantic Monthly 1
  96. Atwood, Margaret 1, 2
  97. Ault, George 1
  98. aura (of the work of art) 1, 2, 3;
    1. see aslo Benjamin, Walter
  99. autonomy, individual 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  100. autonomy of art 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
    1. see aslo deartification
  101. autonomy of labour 1;
    1. see aslo labour
  102. avant-garde, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30;
    1. see aslo neo-avant-garde, the; Russian avant-garde; Soviet avant-garde; vanguard, vanguardism
  103. Azzellini, Dario 1