The birds of Paolo Uccello / Italo Calvino Piero della Francesca / Zbigniew Herbert Hans Holbein the Younger / Ford Madox Ford Tintoretto: St. George and the dragon / Jean-Paul Sarte Variations on El Greco / Aldous Huxley Caravaggio and the unseen / Stephen Koch Something which seemed to resemble decay ... [Rembrandt] / Jean Genet The pleasure of the image [Gerard Houckgeest] / Susan Sontag Chardin: the essence of things / Marcel Proust Goya / André Malraux On the prints of Francisco Goya / Robert Pinsky A note on Pierre Joseph Redouté / Katherine Anne Porter Turner: painting as an organism of light / Kenneth Rexroth Henri Rousseau / Guy Davenport Whistler's noctures / Stanley Plumly "Life, vigor, fire": the watercolors of Winslow Homer / Joyce Carol Oates The Cézanne inscape / Rainer Maria Rilke
Cézanne's rapport / William S. Wilson
Claude Monet or the world upside down / Michel Butor
An eye on Picasso / Norman Mailer
A visit to Braque / Eugenio Montale
Hopper: the loneliness factor / Mark Strand
José de Creeft / Eudora Welty
Giorgio Valdes / Elizabeth Bishop
Is the real actual? [Alfeo Faggi] / Marianne Moore
Heavily hyped Helga [Andrew Wyeth] / John Updike
David Smith / Frank O'Hara
The art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison
Thiebaud's city / Leonard Michaels
On Jane Freilicher / John Ashbery
Surrealism / Cyril Connolly
Against abstract expressionism / Randall Jarrell
Three notes on painting / Octavio Paz
On various minor painters / Willa Cather
On point of view in the arts / José Ortega y Gasset.
