I.—WHAT IS ART
I.The Aesthetic Hypothesispage [3]
II.Aesthetics and Post-Impressionism[38]
III.The Metaphysical Hypothesis[49]
II.—ART AND LIFE
I.Art and Religion[75]
II.Art and History[95]
III.Art and Ethics[106]
III.—THE CHRISTIAN SLOPE
I.The Rise of Christian Art[121]
II.Greatness and Decline[138]
III.The Classical Renaissance and its Diseases[156]
IV.Alid ex Alio[181]
IV.—THE MOVEMENT
I.The Debt to Cézanne[199]
II.Simplification and Design[215]
III.The Pathetic Fallacy[239]
V.—THE FUTURE
I.Society and Art[251]
II.Art and Society[276]

ILLUSTRATIONS

I.Wei Figure[Frontispiece]
II.Persian Dish[1]
III.Peruvian Pot[73]
IV.Byzantine Mosaic[119]
V.Cézanne[198]
VI.Picasso[250]

PERSIAN DISH, ELEVENTH CENTURY (?)