CONTENTS

                         Introduction

                         When Reading This Book

CHAPTER 1      What Is an Iconist?

PART ONE

CHAPTER 2      Fresh Air

CHAPTER 3      Populations

CHAPTER 4      Force Fields: The Rejection of Mass Information

CHAPTER 5      Lights Out: The Dilution Effect

CHAPTER 6      Invisible Man

CHAPTER 7      The American Gangster

CHAPTER 8      The Weakness of Choice

PART TWO

CHAPTER 9      Toy Blocks

CHAPTER 10    The Laws of Gravity

CHAPTER 11    The Monolith

CHAPTER 12    Violent Times: Blocks in Visual Art

CHAPTER 13    Nursery Rhymes: Blocks in Music

CHAPTER 14    The Dreamer and the Fighter

PART THREE

CHAPTER 15    Road Signs

CHAPTER 16    Magnetize

CHAPTER 17    Signals

CHAPTER 18    Arrow and Shaft

CHAPTER 19    BREEED: The Snowball Effect

PART FOUR

CHAPTER 20    Perfection Is Deception

CHAPTER 21    Naked

CHAPTER 22    The Dilution Generation

                         The Primal Laws of Blocks

                         Afterword

                         Thank-Yous and Inspiration

                         References and Image Credits

                         Index

                         About the Author