Includes bibliographical references (pages 1065-1080) and index.
I. Feeling and nature -- Originality and genius -- Responses to nature -- II. The demands of the present -- Utility and revolution -- Art and nature moralized -- Systems and techniques --Independence and individuality -- III. Modernity and bourgeois life -- Modern conditions -- Realism and naturalism -- Morals and standards -- The conditions of art -- IV. Temperaments and techniques -- Effects and impressions -- Science and method -- Photography as an art -- V. Aesthetics and historical awareness -- Empathy and the problem of form -- Cultural criticism -- The independence of art -- VI. The idea of a modern art -- Modernist themes: Paris and beyond -- Painting: expression and colour -- Symbolism