Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan ix Bill Beckley Preface xxi David Shapiro Le Livre est sur la table xxiii John Ashbery I. THEORY On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content 3(12) Meyer Schapiro Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty 15(10) Dave Hickey Beauty and Morality 25(14) Arthur C. Danto Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime 39(14) Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Notes on Beauty 53(8) Peter Schjeldahl Contratemplates 61(14) Marjorie Welish A Sign of Beauty 75(8) Robert C. Morgan On Platonic Cosmetics 83(18) Jacqueline Lichtenstein Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure 101(12) Hubert Damisch Arousal by Image 113(36) David Freedberg II. OWNERSHIP Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: ``Primitivism in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 149(18) Thomas McEvilley On ``Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: `Primitivism in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 167(34) William Rubian Kirk Varnedoe Thomas McEvilley On ``Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: Part II 201(40) William Rubin Thomas McEvilley On the Claims and Critics of the ``Primitivism Show 241(20) Kirk Varnedoe III. PRACTICE The Practice of Beauty 261(14) James Hillman Ode to Willem de Kooning 275(4) Frank OHara Venus Unveiled: De Koonings Melodrama of Vulgarity 279(18) Donald Kuspit The Mind and Body of the Dreamer 297(10) John Yau Mondrians Secret 307(18) David Shapiro A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici 325(6) Julia Kristeva Ariane Lopez-Huici Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty 331(12) Louise Bourgeois Sentences on the House and Other Sentences 343(10) John Hejduk Aunts 353(4) Max Fierst On Beauty 357(14) Kenneth Koch An Aesthetic of the Cool 371(24) Robert Farris Thompson The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty 395(4) Carter Ratcliff Beauty Is the Mystery of Life 399(4) Agnes Martin Contributors 403(6) Acknowledgments 409(2) Credits 411(4) Index 415
