Table of contents

1 Vision and representation

1.1 Intuition, inspiration, imagination, vision
1.2 Terms, concepts and content of art
1.3 Motivation and subject
1.4 Psychological aspects of art
1.5 Form of expression

2 Transcendental art and decorative art

2.1 Fundamental differences
2.2 Essentials of decorative art
2.3 Interconnections between transcendental and decorative art
2.4 The subjectivity of judging art
2.5 Aspects of art in architecture

3 Representional and abstract art

3.1 Alleged analogies between the visual arts and music
3.2 Critiques of abstract art

4 Naturalism and resemblance to nature

4.1 Critiques of naturalism
4.2 Visual and transcendental depiction of nature
4.3 Mutation of the natural image
4.4 Pattern and symbol
4.5 Conceptual and intentionalimaginations
4.6 The lack of arstistic skill in representing the imagination

5 The representation in painting

5.1 The transmission of the visual imagination into a painting
5.2 The pure visual view
5.3 The spatial limitation of the representation in painting