Brings together psychological, feminist, historical, and post-colonial perspectives on a significant twentieth-century work.

1. An introduction to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; 2. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the exhibition of 1988; 3. Painting as trauma; 4. 'To kill the nineteenth century': sex and spectatorship with Gertrude and Pablo; 5. Colonialism, 'l'Art Negre' and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; 6. In another frame: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and physical anthropology; 7. 'Naked problems: Sub-African caricatures? Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Africa and Cubism.