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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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What Is the Spiritual? | |
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What Is the Spiritual in Art? | |
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Eyes for Art | |
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Abstraction: A Religious Art--Sometimes | |
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Early Guides | |
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Paul Cezanne: The Master of Us All | |
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The First Alternative Culture: Theosophy and Anthroposophy | |
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | |
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Rudolf Steiner | |
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Wassily Kandinsky in the Years of On the Spiritual in Art | |
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Cubism | |
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Piet Mondrian: The Universal Towers Above Us | |
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Mondrian's Ideas | |
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Mondrian's Art | |
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Orphism: Giving All to the Sun | |
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Robert Delaunay: Let Us Seek to See | |
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Frantisek Kupka: The Realm of Rhythms and Signs | |
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Marcel Duchamp: Burning Up All Aesthetics | |
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Chance | |
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The Russian Avant-Garde: Idea and Ideology | |
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Kasimir Malevich: A Single Bare and Frameless Icon of Our Times | |
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Constructivism: Intellectual-Material Production | |
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The Unseen Victor: Heroic Realism | |
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Russians Abroad, and an Afterword | |
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Paul Klee: Closer to the Center | |
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Paul Klee's Lecture | |
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Joys of the Apprentice, Sorrows of the Journeyman | |
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Paul Klee's Art | |
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The Bauhaus: Part Shooting Gallery, Part "Metaphysicum Abstractum" | |
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Kandinsky at the Bauhaus: A Block of Ice with a Flame Inside | |
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Constantin Brancusi: Negating the Labyrinth | |
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The Life and Art | |
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Brancusi's Thought: The Laws of Craiova | |
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Henri Matisse: In the Studio with Three Floors | |
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Matisse's Thought: Beneath the Succession of Moments | |
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Matisse's Art: Happy Those Who Sing | |
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The Mediterranean Ethos: Fill the Cup and Again Cry | |
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Matisse | |
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Picasso | |
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Moore | |
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The Future of the Past | |
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American Epiphany | |
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Jackson Pollock: We're on Our Own, Goddamit! | |
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Mark Rothko: They Are Not Pictures | |
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Morris Louis: Veils | |
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Ad Reinhardt: Late Afternoon Absorbent Twilight | |
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Isamu Noguchi: To Comfort Us with the Reality of Our Being | |
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Great Good Fortune | |
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Only Stones | |
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The Invocation Is Still to God | |
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Modest Masters | |
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Ben Nicholson: Abstract Art--Powerful, Unlimited | |
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Giorgio Morandi: A Meditation on Visibility | |
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Julius Bissier: Falling into One's Own Essence | |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Cutting Sharply to the Center | |
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Et Al. | |
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The Photographers | |
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Seekers and Brats: Art in Recent Years | |
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The Marketplace and the Studio | |
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The Laws of the Marketplace | |
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The Laws of the Studio | |
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Walk of Life and Career | |
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Enlightened Patronage: Dag Hammarskjold at the UN | |
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Burning in the Light: Art and Teachings in Our Time | |
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Two Streams | |
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The Craft Tradition | |
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The Duty to Deal in Essentials | |
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Notes | |
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Acknowledgments to Publishers | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |