Table of Contents

Foreword (Ralph Rugoff) The Mental States of America (Ralph Rugoff) Abstraction as a State of Mind (Laura Hoptman) Believing in the Cow: The Psychopathoanathemas Pronounced by George Condo (Will Self) The Butler's Lament (David Means) Plates Chronology Further Reading List of Exhibited Works List of Lenders Acknowledgements Credits

About the Author

Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery, London Laura Hoptman is Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York Will Self is a British writer whose books include My Idea of Fun (1993), Great Apes (1997), How the Dead Live (2000) and The Book of Dave (2007) David Means is an American writer, author of the short story collections Assorted Fire Events: Stories (2003) and The Secret Goldfish (2004)