_THE CALIPH’S DESIGN_ _Architects! Where is your bob Vortex?_ _BY_ _WYNDHAM LEWIS_ LONDON: THE EGOIST LTD. 23 Adelphi Terrace House, 2 Robert Street, W.C.2 1919 _By the same writer_: TARR (The Egoist, Ltd. 6/- net). _CONTENTS_ PAGE PREFACE 5 PART I.--THE CALIPH’S DESIGN 1. The Parable of the Caliph’s Design 11 2. The Bull Sounds 12 3. The Politician’s Apathy 15 4. How the Fact of Style Obstructs 18 5. Where the Painter would Benefit 20 6. The Public Chosen 22 7. Architecture 23 8. Child Art and the Naif 26 9. Machinery and Lions 29 10. The Artist’s Luck 31 PART II.--THE ARTIST OLDER THAN THE FISH 1. The Artist Older than the Fish 35 2. The Physiognomy of our Time 38 3. Fashion 41 PART III.--PARIS 1. French Realism 45 2. The Uses of Fashion 46 3. Cézanne 50 4. The General Tendency in Paris 51 5. Matisse and Dérain 53 6. Picasso 55 PART IV.--THE STUDIO GAME 1. Foreword to Part IV. 61 2. Our Æsthetes and Plank-Art 63 3. The Bawdy Critic 65 4. “We Fell in Love with the Beautiful Tiles in the South Kensington Museum Refreshment Room” 67 5. The Vengeance of Raphael 70 6. General Nature and the Specialised Sense 71 _Preface_ I have assembled round my parable a series of short articles and notes. They are all related to the idea that this parable embodies. The second half of this pamphlet deals with that section of modern painting that is incompatible with any constructive tendency. I give my reasons for believing that it gains nothing from his incompatibility; and, furthermore, that this incompatibility is a diagnostic of fatigue in the painting in question.