| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Notes on Mondrian and Chirico, 1942 |
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15 | (5) |
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Review of Art of This Century, ca. 1943 |
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20 | (3) |
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Note on Modern Art, ca. 1943 |
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23 | (1) |
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Preface to Apollinaire's the Cubist Painters, 1944 |
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24 | (3) |
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The Modern Painter's World, 1944 |
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27 | (9) |
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Plate Caption in Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, 1944 |
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36 | (2) |
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Review of Calder's Three Young Rats, 1944 |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (4) |
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Preface to Mondrian's Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, 1945 |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (2) |
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Review of Henry Moore's Sculpture and Drawings, 1945 |
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48 | (2) |
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Preface to Paalen's Form and Sense, ca. 1945 |
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50 | (3) |
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53 | (1) |
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Beyond the Aesthetic, 1946 |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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Editorial Preface to Possibilities 1, 1947 |
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58 | (1) |
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Prefatory Note to Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, 1948 |
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59 | (2) |
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Prefatory Note to Jean Arp's on My Way, 1948 |
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61 | (2) |
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A Tour of the Sublime, 1948 |
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63 | (4) |
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Preliminary Notice to Apollinaire's the Cubist Painters, 1949 |
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67 | (2) |
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Preliminary Notice to Kahnweiler's the Rise of Cubism, 1949 |
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69 | (3) |
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Preliminary Notice to Raymond's from Baudelaire to Surrealism, 1949 |
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72 | (3) |
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A Personal Expression, 1949 |
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75 | (6) |
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Reflections on Painting Now, 1949 |
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81 | (4) |
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Abstract Art and the Real, 1949 |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (1) |
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Preface to Duthuit's the Fauvist Painters, 1950 |
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89 | (4) |
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The New York School, 1950 |
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93 | (6) |
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99 | (2) |
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A Statement and Introduction to the Illustrations in Modern Artists in America, 1951 |
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101 | (2) |
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Notes on Cy Twombly, 1951 |
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103 | (1) |
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Preface and Introduction to the Dada Painters and Poets, 1951 |
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104 | (50) |
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Preface [ ``The School of New York''], 1951 |
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154 | (2) |
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Postscript to the Preface [ ``The School of New York''], 1951 |
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156 | (2) |
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What Abstract Art Means to Me, 1951 |
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158 | (2) |
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The Rise and Continuity of Abstract Art, 1951 |
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160 | (2) |
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Apropos ``Traditional'' and ``Modern'' Methods of Teaching Art, 1952 |
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162 | (4) |
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Is the French Avant-Garde Overrated? 1953 |
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166 | (2) |
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Preface to a Joseph Cornell Exhibition, 1953 |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (6) |
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The Painter and the Audience, 1954 |
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176 | (4) |
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Of form and Content, ca. 1954 |
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180 | (1) |
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The Artist and Modern Society, 1955 |
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181 | (4) |
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185 | (1) |
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Notes on Bradley Walker TCMLIN, 1957 |
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186 | (2) |
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The Significance of Miro, 1959 |
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188 | (6) |
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Lecture with Charles R. Hulbeck, 1959 |
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194 | (4) |
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Statement for ``Conversations with Artists,'' 1960 |
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198 | (4) |
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What Should a Museum Be? 1961 |
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202 | (3) |
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Painting as Existence: An Interview with David Sylvester, 1962 |
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205 | (7) |
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Homage to Franz Kline, 1962 |
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212 | (2) |
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A Process of Painting, 1964 |
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214 | (4) |
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David Smith: A Major American Sculptor, 1965 |
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218 | (4) |
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Plate Caption for the Stedelijk Museum Catalogue, 1966 |
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222 | (2) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (5) |
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230 | (2) |
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On the ``Lyric Suite,'' 1969 |
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232 | (4) |
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Interview and Letter to Michel Ragon, 1969 |
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236 | (7) |
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Statement on the ``Open'' Series, 1969 |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (2) |
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Thoughts on Drawing, 1970 |
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247 | (3) |
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On the Humanism of Abstraction: The Artist Speaks, 1970 |
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250 | (6) |
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Statements Before Congress, 1970 |
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256 | (10) |
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The Universal Language of Children's Art, and Modernism, 1970 |
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266 | (5) |
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On Rothko, a Eulogy, 1970 |
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271 | (4) |
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Introduction to Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, 1971 |
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275 | (5) |
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Statement on Radicalism in the Visual Arts, 1971 |
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280 | (2) |
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A Recollection of David Smith and the 1950s, 1972 |
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282 | (4) |
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Introduction to the Journal of Eugene Delacroix, 1972 |
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286 | (2) |
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Statement on Picasso, 1974 |
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288 | (1) |
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The New York School (and Symbolism), ca. 1976 |
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289 | (1) |
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Art and Reality, ca. 1976 |
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290 | (1) |
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Parisian Artists in Exile: New York 1939--45, 1977 |
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291 | (17) |
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Provincetown and Days Lumberyard: A Memoir, 1978 |
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308 | (4) |
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Words of the Painter, 1978 |
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312 | (3) |
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Presentation of an Award to Erick Hawkins, 1979 |
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315 | (2) |
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The International World of Modernist Art, 1980 |
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317 | (2) |
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Notes for a Joyce Symposium, 1980 |
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319 | (4) |
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In Memoriam: Anthony Smith, 1981 |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (2) |
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Reflections on Abstract Art, 1982 |
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327 | (4) |
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Foreword to William C. Seitz's Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, 1983 |
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331 | (5) |
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Kafka's Visual Recoil: A Note (for Dore Ashton), 1983 |
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336 | (3) |
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339 | (1) |
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Response: When is a Painting Finished? 1985 |
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340 | (3) |
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On Not Becoming an Academic, 1986 |
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343 | (3) |
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A Personal Recollection, 1986 |
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346 | (5) |
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Nomination of Jasper Johns to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1988 |
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351 | (2) |
| Bibliography |
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353 | (14) |
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| List of Illustrations |
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367 | (2) |
| Index |
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