Preface; Introduction: Art as a Form of Understanding; 1. First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism; 2. Critical?Art; 3. What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray); 4. On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp); 5. Memoria: Memory Work and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’; Aspects of Artistry; 6. On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom; 7. Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift; 8. Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself: On the ‘First Work’ and the Notion of ‘Oeuvre’; 9. Double-speak; Elementary Aesthetics; 10. On Splendour and Modern Beauty; 11. Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience; 12. On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beauty and the Two Sources of Ugliness.