Edgar Wind and modern art : in defence of marginal anarchy / Ben Thomas

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: In Defence of Marginal Anarchy -- Edgar Wind (1900-71) -- Chapter 2: Art and Anarchy -- The Polarity of the Symbol -- Holy Fear -- Experiment and Metaphysics -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.