Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VIII
3. List of Illustrations X
4. Acknowledgments XII
5. Introduction 1
6. Modern Instances: The Macchiaioli 5
7. Morandi of Bologna 29
8. Killing Moonlight: The Futurists 43
9. Miscellany I 61
10. Out of Eden: On Alberto Giacometti 81
11. Notes on Photography 99
12. Matisse's Broken Circle 121
13. The Americans 141
14. Miscellany II 155
15. Not a Beautiful Picture: On Robert Frank 177
16. Other Americans 199
17. Francis Bacon and the Fortunes of Poetry 233
18. Selected Bibliography 249
19. Index 253