Chapter I: Preface: 5

PART I.--THE CALIPH’S DESIGN

1. The Parable of the Caliph’s Design 11
2. The Bull Sounds 12
3. The Politician’s Apathy 15
4. How the Fact of Style Obstructs 18
5. Where the Painter would Benefit 20
6. The Public Chosen 22
7. Architecture 23
8. Child Art and the Naif 26
9. Machinery and Lions 29
10. The Artist’s Luck 31

PART II.--THE ARTIST OLDER THAN THE FISH

1. The Artist Older than the Fish 35
2. The Physiognomy of our Time 38
3. Fashion 41

PART III.--PARIS

1. French Realism 45
2. The Uses of Fashion 46
3. Cézanne 50
4. The General Tendency in Paris 51
5. Matisse and Dérain 53
6. Picasso 55