Introduction -- La Nausée: melancholy of the artist -- Art and the drama -- The artist and the road to freedom -- Sculpture and sculptors -- Alexnder Calder -- David Hare -- Alberto Giacometti -- Painting and painters -- Alberto Giacometti -- Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto -- Robert Lapoujade -- André Masson -- Wols -- Poetry and poets -- Francis Ponge -- Baudelaire -- French African poets -- Jean Genet -- Mallarmé -- Music and musicians