Table of Contents
Epilogue: 2016
Book 1
1900 Picasso 5
1901 Hearts of Darkness: Freud and Conrad 6
1902 Picasso 8
1903 Anna Akhmatova 9
1904 Henry Ford 11
1905 Einstein's Clock 13
1906 Matisse: Paris 15
1907 Picasso & Fernande Olivier 17
1908 Apollinaire 20
1909 Gertrude Stein 22
1910 Virginia Woolf: Three Fragments 23
1911 Picasso & Georges Braque 26
1912 Mao: On Childhood 30
1913 Martha 31
1914 Ernest Swinton: "Mother" 33
1915 Picasso & Juan Gris 35
1916 Easter, 1916 37
1917 Mao: On Education 40
1918 Apollinaire: Two Calligrammes 41
1919 Wittgenstein: Letter to Bertrand Russell 43
Book 2
1920 Mao: On Conflict 47
1921 Picasso & Olga Khokhlova 49
1922 August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century 52
1923 Matisse: Nice 54
1924 Kafka 56
1925 Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait Pierced by a Silver Rail 58
1926 Rilke: Les Saltimbanques 59
1927 Fiber 66: Meet the Latest Miracle Product from DuPont 60
1928 Edward L. Bernays 61
1929 Woody Guthrie: Rusty Bedspring Blues 63
1930 Matisse: Tahiti 65
1931 Mao: On Patience 67
1932 Zora Neale Hurston: Farmyard Hymns 69
1933 Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Hand-Mirror and Retablo of Leon Trotsky 70
1934 Picasso 71
1935 Orson Welles: The Stage 72
1936 Woody Guthrie: Come to Nothing Blues 73
1937 Guernica 76
1938 Mao: On the Long March and Protracted War 79
1939 The Atomic Clock 82
Book 3
1980 Virginia Woolf: Four Fragments 87
1981 Woody Guthrie: Twentieth-Century Blues 90
1982 Guadalcanal 94
1983 Picasso & Dora Maar 98
1984 Joseph Goebbels 100
1985 Hiroshima 101
1986 Matisse: Nice 103
1987 Wittgenstein: Letter to Karl Popper 105
1988 Simone de Beauvoir 107
1989 Mao: On History 109
1990 Charlie Parker 111
1991 Matisse: Vence 112
1992 Mike: Hydrogen Bomb Test 114
1993 Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Death Mask and Amputated Limb 115
1954 Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai 116
1955 Picasso & Francoise Gilot 117
1956 Mao: On Freedom 120
1957 Elvis Presley 122
1958 Mao: On the Great Leap Forward 129
1959 Willem de Kooning 131
Book 4
1960 Zora Neale Hurston: Enigmatic Atlas 135
1961 Jane Goodall 137
1962 The Pulse of the Planet 141
1963 Sylvia and Ted 143
1964 The Coltrane Changes 145
1965 The Style for Dylan 146
1966 Andy Warhol: Image, Print, Negative 147
1967 The Death of Edward Hopper 148
1968 Picasso & Jacqueline Roque 150
1969 Apollo 152
1970 Jacques Derrida 153
1971 The Ticking Clock 154
1972 Mao: On the Future 156
1973 Picasso 158
1974 The Raspberries 163
1975 Orson Welles: Television 166
1976 John Ashbery 167
1977 Voyager I & II 171
1978 Fernand Braudel: Civilization and Capitalism 173
1979 The Nation's Capital 175
Book 5
1980 Two Poems for Czeslaw Milosz 179
1981 Elegy for Eugenio Montale 182
1982 To Héctor Viel Temperley 183
1983 Georgia O'Keeffe 187
1984 George Orwell 189
1985 Orson Welles: The Life 192
1986 The Hudson 194
1987 Andy Warhol: Waterfall of Dollar Signs 196
1988 Joseph Brodsky in Venice 197
1989 The Berlin Wall 198
1990 Hubble Space Telescope: The Galaxies 199
1991 Lee Atwater's Apocalyptic Dream 201
1992 Digital Clocks 205
1993 Roberto Bolaño 208
1994 Nelson Mandela 210
1995 Seamus Heaney 213
1996 Dolly 214
1997 Jobs v. Gates: The Mind-Body Debate 215
1998 The Word for Dylan 218
1999 Pentatina for Five Artists 220
2000 Prologue 221