CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1The Unfinished Project

The Manuscript

A Model of Integration

Daumier and the Choice of Caricature

Scholarship and Exile

A Humanist Experiment

2Toward a Psychology of Art, 1919–32

Kris and the Vocation of Art History

Introspection and a New Realism

Entering the Museum

Borderline Art

Psychoanalysis and Art History

The Republican Interregnum

3The Vienna–London Connection, 1932–36

Gombrich and the Question of Art History

Confronting Doubt

The Crisis of the Republic

Shared Scholarship

Warburg, Freud, and the Psychology of Caricature

Saxl, Read, and the Art of Caricature

4Daumier in Vienna, 1936

The Discreet Charm of the Austrian Bourgeoisie

Looking Toward France

Daumier and Austrian Politics

A Republican Art Exhibition

The Disasters of War

5The Caricature Book, 1936–38

Completing the Manuscript in Vienna

The Classical Mask

The Switch

The Pear

The Moderns

The Fate of Political Art

6From Vienna to London and New York, 1938–41

Leaving the Museum

The End of the Republic

Seeking a Public in London

The BBC and the Journey to New York

Marshall, Lynd, and Content Analysis

Psychology and Propaganda

7War Work, 1941–45

Scholarship and War

From Reading Room to Listening Post

Theories of Propaganda

The Dilemma of Antifascism

An Integrated Front

Combative Pessimism

8Between Past and Future, 1945–65

Fragmented Possibilities

The Manuscript Revisited

Caricature and Conceptual Vision

Political Dissent and Experimental Conditions

Notes

Bibliography

Index