Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction XI
4. Art and Ideas 1
5. Vorticism 13
6. A Matisse and Painting in the American Grain 25
7. Robert Andrew Parker 39
8. From Introduction to These Paintings 45
9. Pictures 81
10. The Relations between Poetry and Painting 109
11. Calm Even in the Catastrophe 127
12. Painters as Writers 139
13. Foreword to an Exhibit 150
14. Gregorio Valdes 153
15. The Heroic Object and Femand Léger 165
16. On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought on Music 177
17. Against Abstract Expressionism 185
18. Jackson Pollock 195
19. A Note on Franz Kline 219
20. An Art of Wondering 223
21. Balthus 233
22. Respect for Things as They Are 247
23. The Painting of Jane Freilicher 257
24. The Poet as Painter 265
25. The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly 289
26. Notes on Corot 311
27. Fragments of a "Rodin" 323
28. Crossing the Tracks to Hopper's World 339
29. Landscape's Empire 345