Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.

• Introduction: The Rape of the Masters; Psychoanalysing Courbet; Inventing Mark Rothko; Fantasising Sargent; Inebriating Rubens; Modernising Winslow Homer; Fetishising Gauguin; Deconcealing van Gogh; Index.

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.

• Introduction: The Rape of the Masters; Psychoanalysing Courbet; Inventing Mark Rothko; Fantasising Sargent; Inebriating Rubens; Modernising Winslow Homer; Fetishising Gauguin; Deconcealing van Gogh; Index.

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.

• Introduction: The Rape of the Masters; Psychoanalysing Courbet; Inventing Mark Rothko; Fantasising Sargent; Inebriating Rubens; Modernising Winslow Homer; Fetishising Gauguin; Deconcealing van Gogh; Index.