Introduction : ascribing to Manet, declaring the author / Richard Shiff
Counter, mirror, maid : some infra-thin notes on A bar at the Folies-Bergère / Carol Armstrong
Manet's A bar at the Folies-Bergère as an allegory of nostaligia / Albert Boime
Art history in the mirror stage : interpreting A bar at the Folies-Bergère / David Carrier
Le Chef d'Oeuvre (bien connu) / Kermit S. Champa
The dialectics of desire, the narcissism of authorship : a male interpretation of the psychological origins of Manet's bar / Bradford R. Collins
On Manet's binarism : virgin and/or whore at the Folies-Bergère / Michael Paul Driskel
Looking into the abyss : the poetics of Manet's A bar at the Folies-Bergère / Jack Flam
Dumbshows : a carefully staged indifference / Tag Gronberg
Privilege and the illusion of the real / James D. Herbert
In front of Manet's bar : subverting the "natural" / John House
Manet's man meets the gleam of her gaze : a psychoanalytic novel / Steven Z. Levine
The "view from elsewhere" : extracts from a semi-public correspondence about the visibility of desire / Griselda Pollock.
