Anthony M. Ludovici.
February 1911.
[1] Friedrich Nietzsche's Gesämmelte Briefe, vol. 111, p. 305.
CONTENTS
[LECTURE I]
[Part I]
Anarchy in Modern Art
[The State of Modern Art]
The Fine Arts:
[1. The Artists]
[2. The Public]
[3. The Critics]
[4. Some Art-Criticisms]
[Part II]
Suggested Causes of the Anarchy in Modern Art
[1. Morbid Irritability]
[2. Misleading Systems of Æsthetic]
3. Our Heritage:—
[(a) Christianity]
[(b) Protestantism]
[(c) Philosophical Influences]
[(d) The Evolutionary Hypothesis]
[LECTURE II]
Government in Art—Nietzsche's Definition of Art
[Part I]
Divine Art and the Man—God
[1. The World "Without Form" and "Void"]
[2. The First Artists]
[3. The People and their Man-God]
[4. The Danger]
[5. The Two Kinds of Artists]
[Part II]
Deductions from Part I—Nietzsche's Art Principles
[1. The Spirit of the Age incompatible with Ruler Art]
[2. A Thrust parried. Police or Detective Art defined]
[3. The Purpose of Art Still the Same as Ever]
[4. The Artist's and the Layman's View of Life]
[5. The Confusion of the Two Points of View]
[6. The Meaning of Beauty of Form and of Beauty of Content in Art]
[7. The Meaning of Ugliness of Form and of Ugliness of Content in Art]
[8. The Ruler-Artist's Style and Subject]
[Part III]
Landscape and Portrait Painting
[1. The Value "Ugly" in the Mouth of the Dionysian Artist]
[2. Landscape Painting]
[3. Portrait Painting]
[LECTURE III]
Nietzsche's art principles in the history of art
[Part I]
Christianity and the Renaissance
[1. Rome and the Christian Ideal]
[2. The Pagan Type appropriated and transformed by Christian Art]
[3. The Gothic Building and Sentiment]
[4. The Renaissance]
[Part II]
Greece and Egypt
[1. Greek Art]
[(a) The Parthenon]
[(b) The Apollo of Tenea]
[(c) The Two Art-Wills of Ancient Greece]
[(d) Greek Painting]
[2. Egyptian Art]
[(a) King Khephrën]
[(b) The Lady Nophret]
[(c) The Pyramid]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Sekhet] (Louvre) Frontispiece
[The Marriage of Mary], by Raphael (Brera, Milan)
[Saskia, by Rembrandt] (Dresden Royal Picture Gallery)
[The Canon of Polycleitus] (Rome)
[The Apollo of Tenea] (Glyptothek, Munich)
[The Medusa Metope of Selinus] (Palermo)
[King Khephrën] (Cairo Museum)
[The Lady Nophret] (Cairo Museum)
[Abbreviations Used in Referring to Nietzsche's Works]
| E. I. | = | The Future of our Educational Institutions. |
| B. T. | = | The Birth of Tragedy. |
| H. A. H. | = | Human All-too-Human. |
| D. D. | = | Dawn of Day. |
| J. W. | = | Joyful Wisdom. |
| Z. | = | Thus spake Zarathustra. |
| G. E. | = | Beyond Good and Evil. |
| G. M. | = | The Genealogy of Morals. |
| C. W. | = | The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner. |
| T. I. | = | The Twilight of the Idols. |
| A. | = | Antichrist. |
| W. P. | = | The Will to Power. |
The English renderings given in this book are taken from the Complete and Authorized Translation of Nietzsche's Works edited by Oscar Levy.