With pleasure: pattern and decoration in American art, 1972-1985

Director's Foreword

Curator's Acknowledgements

Lessons in Promiscuity: Patterning and the New Decorativeness in Art of the 1970s and 1980s / Anna Katz

Miriam Schapiro and the Politics of the Decorative / Elissa Auther

Infinite Progress: Criss-Cross and the Gender of Pattern Painting / Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery

A Meeting of Two Minds: Oleg Grabar and Amy Goldin on the Met's Islamic Art Galleries, 1975 / Sarah-Neel Smith

Rebecca Morris and the Revenge of P&D / Hamza Walker

Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture-Influenced Interior Design / Kayleigh Perkov

Cosmopolitanism and Antagonism: On Public Art, Postmodern Architecture, and P&D / Alex Kitnick

Historical Reprints

Patterns, Grids, and Painting (1975) / Amy Goldin

Negating the Negative (An Answer to Ad Reinhardt's "On Negation") (1976) / Joyce Kozloff

On Affirmation / Joyce Kozloff

Issues in Pattern Painting (1977) / John Perreault

An Intuitive Analysis of Decoration and Pattern Painting (1977) / Susan Michod

Artists Biographies

Exhibition History / Frances Lazare

Bibliography / Frances Lazare.