The birds of Paolo Uccello / Italo Calvino -- Piero della Francesca / Zbigniew Herbert -- Hans Holbein the Younger / Ford Madox Ford -- Tintoretto: St. George and the dragon / Jean-Paul Sarte -- Variations on El Greco / Aldous Huxley -- Caravaggio and the unseen / Stephen Koch -- Something which seemed to resemble decay ... [Rembrandt] / Jean Genet -- The pleasure of the image [Gerard Houckgeest] / Susan Sontag -- Chardin: the essence of things / Marcel Proust -- Goya / André Malraux -- On the prints of Francisco Goya / Robert Pinsky -- A note on Pierre Joseph Redouté / Katherine Anne Porter -- Turner: painting as an organism of light / Kenneth Rexroth -- Henri Rousseau / Guy Davenport -- Whistler's noctures / Stanley Plumly -- "Life, vigor, fire": the watercolors of Winslow Homer / Joyce Carol Oates -- The Cézanne inscape / Rainer Maria Rilke.
Cézanne's rapport / William S. Wilson -- Cézanne / D.H. Lawrence -- Claude Monet or the world upside down / Michel Butor -- Matisse / Gertrude Stein -- An eye on Picasso / Norman Mailer -- Picasso / Francis Ponge -- A visit to Braque / Eugenio Montale -- Hopper: the loneliness factor / Mark Strand -- José de Creeft / Eudora Welty -- Giorgio Valdes / Elizabeth Bishop -- Is the real actual? [Alfeo Faggi] / Marianne Moore -- Heavily hyped Helga [Andrew Wyeth] / John Updike -- David Smith / Frank O'Hara -- Balthus / Albert Camus -- The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison -- Thiebaud's city / Leonard Michaels -- On Jane Freilicher / John Ashbery -- Surrealism / Cyril Connolly -- Against abstract expressionism / Randall Jarrell -- Three notes on painting / Octavio Paz -- On various minor painters / Willa Cather -- On point of view in the arts / José Ortega y Gasset.
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