Acknowledgments  ix

List of Illustrations  xi

Foreword   xv

The Invisible Art of a Highly Visible Man

The Invisible Art of a Highly Visible Man   3

Kyoto   9

Lower Manhattan   13

"This Stuff Is VeryAbstract, I Warn You"  17

The Peculiar Circumstances of This Monastery   21

At Work and at Rest   23

Chronology and Change   25

Thomas Merton, Printmaker   34

Inops et pauper ego sum: The Transformation of Simple, Unnoticed Things   37

Chance/Providence    39

These Are Not "Drawings of": Interpreting Merton's Art   43

Epilogue: "Go on! Go on!"     53

The Art of Thomas Merton: Thirty-four Images 

A Preface to the Images   59

"Signatures: Notes on the Author's Drawings" by Thomas Merton   60

Three Studies 

 Friends   133

Unlikely Peers   154

Exhibitions   161

Appendix

Thomas Merton, Printmaker: Reconstructing His Technique
by John Begley, James Grubola, and John Whitesell    167 

Notes    175

Bibliography   187

Credits   191

Index   193