1 Opening a Gate
2 Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (for Yves)
3 Studio Talk (for Miguel Barceló)
4 The Chauvet Cave
5 Penelope
6 The Fayum Portraits
7 Degas
8 Drawing: Correspondence with Leon Kossoff
9 Vincent
10 Michelangelo
11 Rembrandt and the Body
12 A Cloth Over the Mirror
13 Brancusi
14 The River Po
15 Giorgio Morandi (for Gianni Celati)
16 Pull the Other Leg, It’s Got Bells On It
17 Frida Kahlo
18 A Bed (for Christoph Hänsli)
19 A Man with Tousled Hair
20 An Apple Orchard (An Open Letter to Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyon)
21 Brushes Standing Up in Jars
22 Against the Great Defeat of the World
23 Correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos
I. The Herons
II. The Herons and Eagles
III. How to Live with Stones
24 Will It Be a Likeness? (for Juan Munoz)
Acknowledgements