Foreword: Art's means and philosophical ends -- The wake of art: criticism, philosophy, and the ends of taste / Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn -- Blam! The explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964 -- The philosophical disenfranchisement of art -- Learning to live with pluralism -- Symbolic expressions and the self -- Art after the end of art -- Hans Haacke and the industry of art -- Red Grooms -- Tilted arc and public art -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- The 1991 Whitney Biennial -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- The Abstract Expressionist Coca-Cola bottle -- Afterword: after taste