Illustrations. I. Wei figure [frontispiece] -- II. Persian dish -- III. Peruvian pot -- IV. Byzantine mosaic -- V. Cezanne -- VI. Picasso
Contents
Chapter I. What is art? I. The aesthetic hypothesis -- II. Aesthetics and post-impressionism -- III. The metaphysical hypothesis -- Chapter II. Art and Life. I. Art and religion -- II. Art and history -- III. Art and ethics -- Chapter III. The Christian slope. I. The rise of Christian Art -- II. Greatness and decline -- III. The Classical Renaissance and its diseases -- IV. Alid Ex Alio -- Chapter IV. The movement. I. The debt to Cezanne -- II. Simplification and design -- III. The pathetic fallacy -- Chapter V. The future. I. Society and art -- II. Art and society