I. The human project. The inspired individual, or a celebration of the ego --'A gentle man is not a pot' --Lorenzo Lotto --Serial Cranach --Caravaggio : a talent for our times --Bill Henson --Henry Moore --Sidney Nolan --II. New perspectives. Masaccio : a very modern moster --The Bellini and Venice --The puzzle of Giogione's The Tempest --Pierro della Francesca : master of light and reason --Raphael's The Entombment : a mnument to immortality --Antonello da Messina : small but perfectly formed --Scattering ink among the mountains : the art of Dao Ji --Whistler, Wilde and the Peacock Room --Cy Twombly and his Three Studies from the Temeraire --I blame Duchamp --On CeĢzanne : a founding father of the modern imagination --Jeffrey Smart : a man of great composure --III. Process, practice and perfection. Ghirlandaio and a bad nose : the case for imperfection --Making marks : the fine art of drawing --The three perfections : painting, poetry and calligraphy --Giacometti --Jade : the stone of five virtues --On Bonnard --Giorgio Morandi, master of the silent bottle --IV. Patronage, power and faith. Big Brother is watching : the growth of the art institution --Piety, prestige and pleasure : art and patronage in renaissance Italy --Buddhist art along the Silk Roads --Subtleties of song : the art and aesthetics of Song China --Qingzhou : the art of contemplation --John Bull and the little boy at Manly --V. A personal view. On guild, or ot my fault Guv --On football --China in the 1970s --The true eccentric --Recollections of 'the Pope' --Ten favourite museums
