Theatres of Melancholy : The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond (Hardcover)

Author’s note
Prologue

First act: 1926

1. Exiles
2. Leonid’s travels

Second act: Against the tide

3. Gertrude Stein’s prevarications
4. Ten portraits
5. The ‘Berard era’
6. Tchelitchew: weightiness and grace
7. Transparent bodies
8. Eugene Berman: dreaming of architecture
9. A Paper Ball
10. Medusa

Third act: Figures of style

11. Two minor arcana
12. The strange case of Waldemar-George
13. The invention of Neo-Romanticism
14. Neo-Humanism is a Neo-Mannerism
15. Fantasy landscapes
16. The theory of the saltimbanque

Fourth act: Convergence lines

17. The lightness of being
18. The English scene
19. Kit Wood, the outsider
20. The art of nuance