p. ix, p. 1 © Ken Lum. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery.

p. x, p. 26 © Kelly Wood. Photo: Howard Ursuliak. Courtesy of Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

p. xi, p. 40 Courtesy of the Getty Open Content Program, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 85.PA.407.

p. xii, p. 39 CC0. Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel P. Avery Fund, 1923.1107.

p. xiii [top], p. 43 © Luchino Visconti Licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

p. xiii [bottom], p. 55 © General Idea. Courtesy of AA Bronson.

p. xiv, p. 102 Courtesy of Paris Match Archive, Getty Images. Photo: Maurice Jarnoux.

p. xv, p.128 Photo: Ken Lum.

p. xvi, p. 129 Photo: Ken Lum.

p. xviii, p. 197 Photo: Ken Lum.

p. xix, p. 199 © Wikifrits, Wikimedia Commons.

p. xx [top], p. 226 © Photo Yvon Bellemare.

p. xx [bottom], p. 247 CC BY-SA 1.0. Courtesy Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Archives, v106-4838.

p. xxi, p. 256 Courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1687–93, Archaeological site: Pazyryk Barrow No. 5 (excavations by S.I. Rudenko, 1949).

p. xxii, p. 266 © Karyn Olivier. Photo: Steve Weinik.

p. xxiii, p. 275 Courtesy of The Leonard Frank Collection, Vancouver Public Library Historic Photograph Collection.

p. xxiv, p. 281 Photo: Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket. Getty Images.

p. 9 © Ken Lum.

p. 12 © Ken Lum.

p. 17 © Ken Lum.

p. 36 © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, ART149247. Collection Palais de Beaux Arts. Photo: Philipp Bernard.

p. 45 Courtesy of University of Saskatchewan, University Archives and Special Collections.

p. 50 Collection of Things Magazine.

p. 51 © Y-Tatsuki. Collection Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

p. 51 © Photo: John McNeill/Globe and Mail.

p. 57 Courtesy of University of Toronto Press.

p. 91 © Ken Lum.

p. 109 © Liu Haisu.

p. 113 © Li Qun.

p. 125 © Bin Al Stroker, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.

p. 143 Photo: Ken Lum.

p. 153 © Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky. Photo: Rob Bos. Courtesy of Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky/Susan Hobbs Gallery.

p. 175 Courtesy of le Point d’Ironie, Agnes B.

p. 169 © Chen Zhen/Art Resource.

p. 178 © ADAGP. Photo: Tania Mouraud. Collection Frac Lorraine.

p. 187 © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, ART156805. Collection Musée d’Orsay. Photo: Patrice Schmidt.

p. 204 © Ken Lum.

p. 208 © Ken Lum.

p. 214 © John Filo.

p. 229 © Ilya Kabakov. Courtesy of Ilya & Emilia Kabakov.

p. 235 © Herbert Foundation, Ghent.

p. 245 Photo: Ken Lum.

p. 248 © CC BY 2.0 Photo: Sam Valadi.

p. 252 Courtesy of the artist and Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York/Sprüth Magers. Photo Chris Kendall.

p. 269 © Tania Bruguera. Courtesy of Estudio Bruguera. Photo: Steve Weinik.

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