The book in embryo -- The matter of sculpture -- Stranded -- "Offensive obtrusiveness" -- Matter and man -- Modern art and its philosophy -- Coda -- Moore's mother -- The human thing -- Drawing a blank -- Mother, other, nursling, nothing -- Base and frame -- The things we care for -- Ends and means -- Woman's work -- Part and hole -- Abstraction and the body politic -- Stones are full of entrails, bravo, bravo -- Inside out -- (De)generation -- Stupid emotion -- Genesis : Its Genesis -- Descent and Dissent -- Out of Africa -- Back to Africa -- Lost objects