Edgar Wind and Modern Art

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. In Defence of Marginal Anarchy
Edgar Wind (1900-1971)

2. Art and Anarchy
The Polarity of the Symbol
Holy Fear
Experiment and Metaphysics

3. The Tradition of Symbols in Modern Art
The Heritage of Baudelaire
History of the Monster
Picasso and the Atavism of the Mask
Religious and Scientific Fallacies - 'Our Present Discontents'

4. 'Cher Magus' - Pavel Tchelitchew
Cathedrals of Art
'You really are a magician...'
The Feast of the Gods
Monstrous Phenomena
Method and Microcosm in Leonardo da Vinci
Tchelitchew and Leonardo

5. 'The Muses' sterner laws' - W. H. Auden and Ben Shahn
The Irresponsibles
The Critical Nature of a Work of Art
Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century
Klee and Candide
Seven Moral Paintings
Art and Morals
The Truest Poetry is the Most Feigning
The Shape of Content

6. 'Certain Forms of Association Neglected Before' - R. B. Kitaj
The Fallacy of Pure Art
The Book as Symbol
Rosa Luxemburg as Pathosformel
Warburg as Maenad - the reconciliation of opposites
If Not, Not

Conclusion

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Index

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• Arte e Design: Postmodernismo
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