Avant-Garde and kitsch -- The plight of culture -- The later Monet -- Renoir -- Cezanne -- Picasso at seventy-five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Leger -- Jacques Lipchitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The school of Paris: 1946 -- Contribution to a symposium -- "Primitive" painting -- Abstract, representational, and so forth -- The new sculpture -- Partisan Review "Art Chronicle": 1952 -- The crisis of the easel picture -- Modernist sculpture, its pictorial past -- Wyndham Lewis against abstract art -- Byzantine parallels -- On the role of nature in Modernist painting -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hoffmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith -- "American-type" painting -- The late thirties in New York -- T.S. Eliot: A book review -- A victorian novel -- Bertolt Brecht's poetry -- Kafka's Jewishness.
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