From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Prologue. The deceits of the past ; The city of women ; Their little hands, so tender and white ; Cabinet of curiosities ; The fault in our star? ; A self-portrait is never one thing
1. Easel. The liberating looking glass ; The equal of the muses and Apelles ; How to paint an apricot ; I want to be everything
2. Smile. The lodestar ; They call me Madame Van Dyck
3. Allegory. A story, stilled ; It's true, it's true ; The sun of Italy and the gem of Europe ; My grey hair ; Self-portrait hesitating
4. Hallucination. I Do Not See the (Woman) Hidden in the Forest ; There are things that are not sayable ; I am the subject I know best
5. Solitude. Fine and fierce things ; The strange form ; I've scraped by, up and down
6. Translation. Tradition thinks for you, but heavens! how dull! ; To be known by name ; To draw seeing every feather ; Self-portrait as Tahitian
7. Naked. Open to everything ; The model models for herself ; The painting and the painter. Epilogue.
