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Table of Contents | ||||||
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List of Illustrations | ||||||
Preface | ||||||
Introduction: From Gravity to Grace | 1 | |||||
I | The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting | 23 | ||||
The Habit of Perfection / Piet Mondrian | 26 | |||||
The Floating World / Joan Miro | 36 | |||||
Written in White / Mark Tobey | 47 | |||||
Pilgrimage to the Sublime / Barnett Newman | 53 | |||||
A Mind of Winter / Jasper Johns | 61 | |||||
Instant Apotheosis / Robert Mapplethorpe | 67 | |||||
The Priestess of Perfection / Agnes Martin | 72 | |||||
Traveling the Ellipse / Robert Mangold | 77 | |||||
Sense and Sensibility / Brice Marden | 82 | |||||
The Prison House of Abstraction / Peter Halley | 93 | |||||
Effacing the Grid / Nancy Haynes | 101 | |||||
White Light / Mark Milloff | 104 | |||||
Pursuing the Line / Theresa Chong | 107 | |||||
II | Asceticism and Sculpture | 113 | ||||
The Solitude of Objects / Alberto Giacometti | 116 | |||||
Drawing in Air / David Smith | 123 | |||||
Caught in the Web / Eva Hesse | 135 | |||||
An Art of Meditation / Isamu Noguchi | 141 | |||||
Present Perfect / Donald Judd | 147 | |||||
Virtue Like Jade / Yu Yu Yang | 150 | |||||
The Noiseless, Patient Sculptor / Mark di Suvero | 155 | |||||
The Art of Public Withdrawal / Bruce Nauman | 158 | |||||
III | Asceticism and Architecture | 164 | ||||
The Prophet / Frank Lloyd Wright | 165 | |||||
The Priest / Mies van der Rohe | 171 | |||||
The Mandarin / I. M. Pei | 175 | |||||
Our Glassy Essence: A Few Contemporary Architects | 179 | |||||
IV | Asceticism in Music and the Dance | 182 | ||||
The Ascetic as Dandy / Claude Debussy | 189 | |||||
The Voice of Angels / Olivier Messiaen | 193 | |||||
Musician of Silence / John Cage | 198 | |||||
Complexity and Contradiction / Elliott Carter | 210 | |||||
The Master Craftsman / Steve Reich | 212 | |||||
The Lawmaker / Philip Glass | 218 | |||||
The Last Puritan / Glenn Gould | 226 | |||||
Asceticism in the Dance | 236 | |||||
The Taskmaster / George Balanchine | 239 | |||||
Silent Redemption / Doris Humphrey | 243 | |||||
The Wizard of Solitude / Merce Cunningham | 248 | |||||
Our Lady of Pain / Pina Bausch | 252 | |||||
V | Asceticism in Literature and Philosophy | 254 | ||||
The Comfortable Hermit / Soren Kierkegaard | 258 | |||||
Elected Silence / Gerard Manley Hopkins | 262 | |||||
The Poet of Purity / Stephane Mallarme | 266 | |||||
Delicious Recoil / Marcel Proust, Walter Pater | 270 | |||||
Sages in the Holy Fire / W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot | 273 | |||||
A World of Cinders / T. E. Hulme | 277 | |||||
The Sensible Ascetic / William James | 279 | |||||
The Habit of Indifference / Samuel Beckett | 282 | |||||
Metaphysics in Retreat / Martin Heidegger | 285 | |||||
Baroque of the Void / Robert Musil | 288 | |||||
Corrected Out of Existence / Thomas Bernhard | 292 | |||||
The Freedom of Nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre | 298 | |||||
Blood on Snow / Simone Weil | 302 | |||||
An Effaced Order / Michel Foucault | 305 | |||||
The Poet as Pilgrim / Seamus Heaney | 307 | |||||
How Perfect Is It / Walter Abish | 312 | |||||
Notes | 321 | |||||
Bibliography | 333 | |||||
Index | 341 |
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