1. Young Lucian: art in wartime London --
3. Euston Road in Camberwell --
4. Spirit in the mass: the Borough Polytechnic --
6. Leaping into the void --
7 Life into art: Bacon and Freud in the 1950s --
8. Two climbers roped together --
9. What makes the modern home so different? --
10. An arena in which to act --
11. The situation in London, 1960 --
12. The artist thinks: Hockney and his contemporaries --
13. The grin without the cat: Bacon and Freud in the 1960s --
14. American connections --
15. Mysterious conventionality --
16. Portrait surrounded by artistic devices --
17. Shimmering and dissolving --
18. The non-existence of action --