Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 281-284)

pt. 1. The necessity of distortion in painting -- Hills and faces: Hitchens, Lanyon -- Space in contemporary painting and architecture -- Submerged rhythm: A potter's aesthetic -- Cubism, constructivism and the architect -- pt. 2. Braque -- Picasso -- Pierre Bonnard and abstraction -- Maurice de Vlaminck -- Four notes: Klee, Matisse, Soutine, Léger -- pt. 3. Modern English romantics: Sutherland, Vaughan, Wynter -- Paul Nash -- Five types of abstraction: Nicholson, Pasmore, Scott, Hilton, Wells -- Sculpture: fruit or thorn? Moore, Hepworth, Calder, Butler, Matisse -- pt. 4. Twenty-five fragments Cézanne's watercolours -- Rome, April 1953 -- Rouault's 'Guerre' and 'Miserère' aquatints -- Artists in Cornwall -- Frances Hodgkins -- Alan Davie -- James Cant in London -- Massimo Campigli -- A paradox of criticism -- Apropos of Sickert, Keene and Cézanne -- Matthew Smith -English fauve -- The living dead -- Tintoretto and Braque -- Realism in Titian -- Leonardo -scientist -- Abstraction in Rembrandt -- Luminosity and voluminosity in drawings -- Paris -- The power of Paris -- Three schools in post-war Paris -- The philosophy of Herbert Read -- Mexico -- Turner resurgent -- Space in French landscape.