Compendium of articles on the history of narrative in art. Includes texts by Lawrence Gowing, George MacBeth, Fairfield Porter, John Ashbery, Amy Goldin, Eleanor Munro, Carl R. Baldwin, Patrik Reuterswärd, H.A. Groenewegen-Frankfort, Gregory Martin, David Kunzle. Essay by Goldin includes works by Mel Bochner, Robert Morris, Edward Ruscha, Jasper Johns, John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman and others.