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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Jed Perl
Jackson Pollock
My Painting
Mark Rothko
The Romantics Were Prompted
Two Statements from The Tiger's Eye
Barnett Newman
The First Man Was an Artist
The Sublime Is Now
Ohio, 1949
Peggy Guggenheim
Art of This Century
Henry Miller
(from) The Amazing and Invariable Beauford Delaney
James Agee
Introduction to Helen Levitt's A Way of Seeing
Charles Burchfield
Journals, 1948-50
Robert M. Coates
Mondrian, Kleenex, and You
Willem de Kooning
The Renaissance and Order
What Abstract Art Means to Me
Edwin Denby
The Thirties
Willem de Kooning
Katz: Collage, Cutout, Cut-up
The Silence at Night
"At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared"
"Alex Katz paints his north window"
Parker Tyler
Jackson Pollock: The Infinite Labyrinth
Lincoln Kirstein
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of the Dance
Tennessee Williams
An Appreciation
Anton Myrer
(from) Evil Under the Sun
Hans Hofmann
(from) The Search for the Real in the Visual Arts
Clement Greenberg
Review of an Exhibition of Willem de Kooning
The Role of Nature in Modern Painting
"American-Type" Painting
Modernist Painting
Clyfford Still
Statement
An Open Letter to an Art Critic
Dwight Ripley
An Alphabetical Guide to Modern Art
Alphabetical Guide No. 2
Acrostic for Jackson Pollock
Robert Motherwell
Black or White
What Abstract Art Means to Me
Weldon Kees
Robert Motherwell
Adolph Gottlieb
Mark Tobey
Reminiscence and Reverie
Color Illustrations
Kenneth Rexroth
The Visionary Painting of Morris Graves
William Carlos Williams
Painting in the American Grain
Marianne Moore
Robert Andrew Parker
Dwight Macdonald
(from) Action on West Fifty-Third Street
Harold Rosenberg
The American Action Painters
Parable of American Painting
Evidences
Mobile, Theatrical, Active
Mary McCarthy
An Academy of Risk
Jack Tworkov
A Cahier Leaf
Statement
Four Excerpts from a Journal
Irving Sandler
Joan Mitchell
Fielding Dawson
(from) An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline
William Gaddis
(from) The Recognitions
Jack Kerouac
Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans
Truman Capote
On Richard Avedon
Aaron Siskind
Statement
Randall Jarrell
Against Abstract Expressionism
John Graham
Excerpts from an Unfinished Manuscript Titled "Art"
Alfred Russell
Toward Meta-Form
Joseph Cornell
From the Diaries
Alexander Calder
What Abstract Art Means to Me
Ben Shahn
(from) The Shape of Content
Isamu Noguchi
(from) A Sculptor's World
Anni Albers
Tapestry
David Smith
The Landscape
The Question--what is your hope
The Question--what are your influences--
"there is something rather noble about junk"
Dream
Howard Nemerov
Four Soldiers: A Sculpture in Iron by David Smith
Louise Bourgeois
An Artist's Words
On the Creative Process
Form
Philip Guston
Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting
Faith, Hope and Impossibility
Morton Feldman
Philip Guston: The Last Painter
Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Art Refuses
Art-As-Art
Robert Creeley
Harry Callahan: A Note
John Chamberlain
On the Road: Notes on Artists and Poets 1950-1965
Elaine de Kooning
Pure Paints a Picture
Painting a Portrait of the President
Meyer Schapiro
The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art
On the Humanity of Abstract Painting
Marcel Duchamp
The Creative Act
Apropos of "Readymades"
Grace Hartigan
Statement
From the Journals, 1952
Frank O'Hara
Why I Am Not a Painter
David Smith: The Color of Steel
Art Chronicle I
Larry Rivers: A Memoir
Larry Rivers
Life Among the Stones
James Schuyler
Statement on Poetics
The Painting of Jane Freilicher
Short Reviews from Art News
Calvin Tomkins
(from) Beyond the Machine
May Swenson
At the Museum of Modern Art
Allan Kaprow
The Legacy of Jackson Pollock
Susan Sontag
Happenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition
James Baldwin
On the Painter Beauford Delaney
Philip Leider
Bruce Conner: A New Sensibility
Joan Brown
Kate Steinitz
A Visit With Sam Rodia
Jess
Letter to Jerry Reilly
Robert Duncan
(from) Iconographical Extensions
H. C. Westermann
Three Letters
Robert Rosenblum
The Abstract Sublime
Sidney Tillim
Month in Review, January 1962
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Philip Pearlstein and the New Philistinism
John Cage
Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas
Jasper Johns
Statement
Sketchbook Notes
Robert Rauschenberg
Statement
Leo Steinberg
Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public
Andy Warhol
What Is Pop Art?
(from) The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Claes Oldenburg
(from) Store Days
Gene R. Swenson
The New American "Sign Painters"
John Bernard Myers
Junkdump Fair Surveyed
Fairfield Porter
The Paintings of E. E. Cummings
Richard Stankiewicz
John Graham
Against Idealism
Joseph Cornell
A Painter Obsessed By Blue
Hilton Kramer
Edward Hopper: An American Vision
Ralph Ellison
The Art of Romare Bearden
Louis Finkelstein
Painting as Painting
Thomas B. Hess
The Battle of Paris, Strip-tease and Trotsky: Some Non-Scenic Travel Notes
Barbara Rose
ABC Art
Donald Judd
Local History
Specific Objects
Rosalind Krauss
Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd
Robert Smithson
The Crystal Land
Michael Fried
New York Letter: Warhol
Art and Objecthood
John Ashbery
Andy Warhol in Paris
Joan Mitchell
Leland Bell
The Invisible Avant-Garde
Sources and Acknowledgments
Index
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