Statement on the "open" series 1969

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter II
2. Contents VI
3. Preface and acknowledgments X
4. Introduction 1
5. Notes on Mondrian and Chirico 1942 15
6. Review of art of this century ca. 1943 20
7. Note on modern art ca. 1943 23
8. Preface to a pollinaire's the cubist painters 1944 24
9. The modern painter's world 1944 27
10. Plate caption in abstract and surrealist art in america 1944 36
11. Review of Calder's three young rats 1944 38
12. Painters' objects 1944 40
13. Preface to Mondrian's plastic art and pure plastic art 1945 44
14. Personal statement 1945 46
15. Review of Henry Moore's sculpture and drawings 1945 48
16. Preface to Paalen's form and sense ca. 1945 50
17. Statement 1946 53
18. Beyond the aesthetic 1946 54
19. Statement 1947 57
20. Editorial preface to possibilities 1 1947 58
21. Prefatory note to Max Ernst: beyond painting 1948 59
22. Prefatory note to Jean Arp's on my way 1948 61
23. A tour of the sublime 1948 63
24. Preliminary notice to Apollinaire's the cubist painters 1949 67
25. Preliminary notice to Kahnweiler's the rise of cubism 1949 69
26. Preliminary notice to raymond's from baudelaire to surrealism 1949 72
27. A personal expression 1949 75
28. Reflections on painting now 1949 81
29. Abstract art and the real 1949 85
30. Black or white 1950 86
31. For David Smith 1950 88
32. Preface to Duthuit's the fauvist painters 1950 89
33. The new york school 1950 93
34. Expressionism ca.1950 99
35. A statement and introduction to the illustrations in modern artists in America 1951 101
36. Notes on cy twohbly 1951 103
37. Preface and introduction to the Dada painters and poets 1951 104
38. Preface ["the school of new york"] 1951 154
39. Postscript to the preface ["the school of new york"] 1951 156
40. What abstract art means to me 1951 158
41. The rise and continuity of abstract art 1951 160
42. Apropos "traditional" and "modern" methods of teaching art 1952 162
43. Is the french avant-garde overrated? 1953 166
44. Preface to a Joseph Cornell exhibition 1953 168
45. Symbolism 1954 170
46. The painter and the audience 1954 176
47. Of form and content ca. 1954 180
48. The artist and modern society 1955 181
49. The artist's life 1956 185
50. Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin 1957 186
51. The significance of Miró 1959 188
52. Lecture with Charles R. Hulbeck 1959 194
53. Statement for "conversations with artists" 1960 198
54. What should a museum be? 1961 202
55. Painting as existence: an interview with David Sylvester 1962 205
56. Homage to Franz Kline 1962 212
57. A process of painting 1964 214
58. David Smith: a major American sculptor 1965 218
59. Plate caption for the Stedelijk museum catalogue 1966 222
60. Statement 1967 224
61. On Jackson Pollock 1967 225
62. On Rothko 1967 230
63. On the "lyric suite" 1969 232
64. Interview and letter to Michel Ragon 1969 236
65. Statement on the "open" series 1969 243
66. Motherwell muses 1 9 6 9 245
67. Thoughts on drawing 1970 247
68. On the humanism of abstraction: the artist speaks 1970 250
69. Statements before congress 1970 256
70. The universal language of children's art, and modernism 1970 266
71. On Rothko, a eulogy 1970 271
72. Introduction to Cabanne's dialogues with Marcel Duchamp 1971 275
73. Statement on radicalism in the visual arts 1971 280
74. A recollection of David Smith and the 1950s 1972 282
75. Introduction to the journal of Eugène Delacroix 1972 286
76. Statement on Picasso 1974 288
77. The new york school (and symbolism) ca. 1976 289
78. Art and reality ca. 1976 290
79. Parisian artists in exile: new york 1939-45, 1977 291
80. Provincetown and days lumberyard: a memoir 1978 308
81. Words of the painter 1978 312
82. Presentation of an award to Erick Hawkins 1979 315
83. The international world of modernist art 1980 317
84. Notes for a Joyce Symposium 1980 319
85. In memoriam: Anthony Smith 1981 323
86. Journal entry ca.1981 325
87. Reflections on abstract art 1982 327
88. Foreword to William C. Seitz's abstract expressionist painting in America 1983 331
89. Kafka's visual recoil: a note (for Dore Ashton) 1983 336
90. Animating rhythm 1984 339
91. Response! when is a painting finished? 1985 340
92. On not becoming an academic 1986 343
93. A personal recollection 1986 346
94. Nomination of jasper johns to the American academy of arts and letters 1988 351
95. Bibliography compiled by Katy Rogers 353
96. Illustrations 367
97. Index 369