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Editor's Introduction | |
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From Permanent Red(1960) (US title Toward Reality) | |
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Preface to the 1979 Edition | |
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Introduction Drawing Jackson Pollock Henry Moore Juan Gris Jacques Lipchitz Ossip Zadkine Fernand L�ger Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Oskar Kokoschka | |
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The Clarity of the Renaissance | |
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The Calculations of Piero Poussin's Order Watteau as the Painter of His Time | |
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The Honesty of Goya | |
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The Dilemma of the Romantics Millet and Labour | |
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The Politics of Courbet Gauguin's Crime | |
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From The Moment of Cubism(1969) | |
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The Moment of Cubism | |
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The Historical Function of the Museum | |
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The Changing View of Man in the Portrait Art and Property | |
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Now Image of Imperialism Nude in a Fur Coat: Rubens | |
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The Painter in His Studio: Vermeer Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin The Maja | |
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Dressedand The Maja Undressed: Goya Mathias Gr�newald L. S. Lowry 138 | |
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Alberto Giacometti Pierre Bonnard Frans Hals Auguste Rodin | |
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From The Look of Things(1972) | |
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Peter Peri Zadkine Le | |
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Corbusier Victor Serge Walter | |
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Benjamin Drawings | |
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Thicker than Water (Corot) Painting a Landscape | |
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Understanding a Photograph | |
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The Political Uses of Photo-Montage | |
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The Sight of a Man Revolutionary | |
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Undoing Past Seen from a Possible Future | |
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The Nature of Mass Demonstrations | |
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The Booker Prize Speech Speech on Accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction (1972) | |
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From About Looking(1980) | |
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Why Look at Animals? | |
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The Suit and the Photograph Photographs of Agony Paul | |
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Strand Uses of Photography | |
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The Primitive and the Professional | |
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Millet and the Peasant Seker Ahmet and the Forest La Tour and Humanism Francis Bacon and Walt Disney | |
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An Article of Faith Between Two Colmars Courbet and the Jura | |
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Turner and the Barber's Shop | |
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Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris Magritte and the Impossible | |
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Romaine Lorquet Field | |
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From The White Bird(1985) | |
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(US title The Sense of Sight) | |
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The White Bird | |
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The Storyteller | |
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The Eaters and the Eaten On the Bosphorus | |
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The Theatre of Indifference Modigliani's Alphabet of Love | |
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The Hals Mystery In a Moscow | |
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Cemetery Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death Fran�ois, Georges and Am�lie: A Requiem in Three Parts Drawn to That Moment | |
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The Eyes of Claude Monet | |
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The Workof Art Mayakovsky: His Language and His Death [with Anya Bostock] | |
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The Hour of Poetry Leopardi | |
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The Production of the World Ulysses | |
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The First and Last Recipe: Ulysses(1991) | |
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From Keeping a Rendezvous(1992) | |
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Note to the Reader Ev'ry Time | |
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We Say Goodbye That Which Is Held A Load of Shit Mother A Story for Aesop | |
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The Ideal Palace Imagine Paris | |
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A Kind of Sharing Christ of the Peasants | |
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A Professional Secret Ape Theatre | |
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The Opposite of Naked | |
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A Household Drawing on Paper Erogenous Zone | |
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The Soul and the Operator | |
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The Third Week of August, 1991 | |
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Appendices | |
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Notes | |
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Sources | |