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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 | |