Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Culture in General -- Avant-Garde and Kitsch -- The Plight of Culture -- Art in Paris -- The Later Monet -- Renoir -- Cézanne -- Picasso at Seventy-Five -- Collage -- Georges Rouault -- Braque -- Marc Chagall -- Master Léger -- Jacques Lipchitz -- Kandinsky -- Soutine -- The School of Paris: 1946 -- Contribution to a Symposium -- Art in General -- "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 -- Art in the United States -- Thomas Eakins -- John Marin -- Winslow Homer -- Hans Hofmann -- Milton Avery -- David Smith -- "American-Type" Painting -- The Late Thirties in New York -- Literature -- T. S. Eliot: A Book Review -- A Victorian Novel -- Bertolt Brecht's Poetry -- Kafka's Jewishness -- Copyright.