Issue edited by John Coplans. Essays "Things and Theories," by James Collins; "Max Ernst: Speculations Provoked by an Exhibition," by Rosalind Krauss; "Gerald Hayes: The Creativity of the Psychological Eye," by Virginia Gunter; "American Painting During the Cold War," by Max Kozloff; "No/Yes on the West Coast," by Peter Plagens; Meredith Monk: "An Introduction," by Angela Westwater; "A Metamorphic Theater," by Mark Berger; "Love and Death in Picasso's Early Work," by Theodore Reff; "Book Review," by Carol Duncan. Reviews by Lizzie Borden, Bruce Boice, Roberta Smith, April Kingsley. Cover: Pablo Picasso.