Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Introduction: Narrating modernity -- 1 Towards a definition of the problem picture -- The emergence of the problem picture -- The problem picture: a chronological narrative -- The problem picture as social practice: audiences -- The problem picture as social practice: the press -- The 'problem picture' -- 2 Woman as problem -- Sex and the 'marriage problem' -- Woman as problem -- Decoding woman -- 3 Modern art and modern life -- Trouble and the painting of modern life: Collier in the 1890s -- A Confession and The Prodigal Daughter: producing the problem picture -- 4 The fashionable problem picture: viewers and viewings -- The fallen woman and the New Woman: The Prodigal Daughter -- 'An unpleasant squabble at cards': The Cheat -- Mothers and daughters: Mariage de Convenance -- Modern masculinity: The Sentence of Death -- 5 The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other -- The 'problem picture' and the press, 1909-13 -- The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other -- 6 The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art -- From high art to entertainment: A Fallen Idol -- Embodying viewers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index