Table of Contents
Introduction: Down with Enclosures vii
Part I Redrawing the Maps
1 Kraków 3
2 To Take Paper, to Draw 20
3 The Basis of All Painting and Sculpture Is Drawing 27
4 Frederick Antal - A Personal Tribute 33
5 An Address to Danish Worker Actors on the Art of Observation, by Bertolt Brecht, Translated by Anya Bostock and John Berger 36
6 Revolutionary Undoing: On Max Raphael's The Demands of Art 44
7 Walter Benjamin: Antiquarian and Revolutionary 54
8 The Storyteller 60
9 Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death 66
10 Gabriel García Márquez: The Secretary of Death Reads It Back 74
11 Roland Barthes: Inside the Mask 79
12 Forthflowing on a Joycean Tide 83
13 A Gift for Rosa Luxemburg 87
14 The Ideal Critic and the Fighting Critic 94
Part II Terrain
15 The Clarity of the Renaissance 101
16 A View of Delft 104
17 The Dilemma of the Romantics 106
18 The Victorian Conscience 110
19 The Moment of Cubism 113
20 Parade, 1917 141
21 Judgment on Paris 148
22 Soviet Aesthetic 151
23 The Biennale 155
24 Art and Property Now 159
25 No More Portraits 165
26 The Historical Function of the Museum 171
27 The Work of Art 176
28 1968/1979 Preface to Permanent Red (1960) 183
29 Historical Afterword to the Into Their Labours Trilogy 186
30 The White Bird 203
31 The Soul and the Operator 208
32 The Third Week of August 1991 216
33 Ten Dispatches about Place (June 2005) 221
34 Stones (Palestine, June 2003) 228
35 Meanwhile 242
Acknowledgements 253