1. Art and its display in the early modern era
2. In search of the new: painters of the colonial period
3. Art, nationalism and ideology: the formation of socialist realist art in North Korea
4. Abstract paintings of the 1950s to 1970s
5. Art and politics of the 1980s and mid-1990s
6. Contesting form and content: art of the 1990s and 2000s.