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This must have been a marvellous book to write. The Aesthetics
text is basically informative and descriptive. rather Current and forthcoming
than analytical. angled somewhere mid-way between Data: Directions in Art, Theory and Aesthetics edited by Anthony
Hill, 1 00 illustrations, £4 4s, Faber and Faber
the coffee table and the library shelf. The same goes books Art and Understanding by Derek Clifford, £3 15s, Evelyn, Adams
for the illustrations; they are obviously intended to and Mackay
show the architecture as architecture. but the tempta­
tion to photograph it as scenery appears occasionally
to exert an influence. This list of current and forthcoming
books is necessarily incomplete.
Audubon the Naturalist; a History of his Life and Inclusion here does not preclude Architecture
Time by Francis Hobart Herrick. 2 vols. 451 and a review notice in a later issue of
500 pp with original documents. appendices and Studio International. Architecture of Glasgow by Andor Gomme and David Walker, 22
bibliography. Monochrome plates throughout. Dover illustrations, £4 4s, Lund Humphries.
Publications Inc NY; Constable. 28s 6d each vol. European Architecture in India 1734-1757 by Sten Nillson, 96
Paperback version of massive biography of the pages of illustrations, £7 7s, Faber and Faber.
American naturalist, originally published in 1938. New Directions in English Architecture by Royston Landau,
£2 2s, Studio Vista.
New Directions in Japanese Architecture by Robin Boyd, £2 2s,
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool Art Pre-1830 Studio Vista.
by Frederick Gibberd. with a foreword by Cardinal The English House through Seven Centuries by Olive Cook and
Edwin Smith, 7 colour plates, 300 monochrome illustrations,
Heenan. 161 pp with 105 monochrome. 5 colour Rubens by Jennifer Fletcher, 80 colour plates, 32s 6d, Phaidon £7 7s, Thomas Nelson and Sons.
illustrations. Architectural Press. 45s. Press. German Rococo: The Zimmermann Brothers by Henry Russell
Blow by blow account by the architect of one of his The Engraved Gems of the Greeks and the Etruscans by Gisella Hitchcock, 58 illustrations, £4 4s, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press.
most notable commissions - 'The cathedral of Richter, £18, Phaidon Press.
The Paintings or Rembrandt by Bredius, £5 1 0s, Phaidon Press.
Vatican II ... happily in tune with the emerging Italian Pictures of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson, in three
pattern of liturgical reform'. No competitor to the volumes, £13 1 0s, Phaidon Press.
cathedral of Vatican I though. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Boucicaut
Master by Millard Meiss, £4 6s, Phaidon Press. Applied Art
Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany by Henry Russell
Early Flemish Painting by Margaret Whinney. 168 pp Hitchcock, £4 15s, Phaidon Press.
plus 96 pp of monochrome illustration and 4 colour Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light by Benedict Nicolson, Celadon Wares by G. St G. N. Gompertz, £2 2s, Faber and Faber.
plates. Faber and Faber. 70s. in two volumes, 495 illustrations, £12 12s, The Paul Mellon Blanc de Chine by P. J. Donnelly (Faber Monograph Series),
over 450 illustrations, £7 7s, Faber and Faber.
Solid history of painting in the Low Countries, by a Foundation for British Art in association with Routledge and French Faience by Arthur Lane, (Faber Monograph Series), 104
Kegan Paul.
former reader at the Courtauld Institute. Reliable An Italian Sketchbook by Richard Wilson edited by Denys Sutton, illustrations, £3 3s, Faber and Faber.
history rather than thought-provoking analysis. in two volumes, 58 plates, £6 6s, l!'he Paul Mellon Foundation for Bohemian Engraved Glass by Z Pesatova, 130 colour plates, 124
British Art in association with Routledge and Kegan Paul. monochrome illustrations, £2 2s, Paul Hamlyn.
Velasquez Work and World by Jose Lopez-Rey, 112 pages of French Decorative Art (1638-1783) by George Savage, £4 4s,
The Masters of Mannerism by Marianne Haraszti­ monochrome illustrations, 6 colour plates, £6 6s, Faber and Allen Lane, The Penguin Press.
Tak�cs. 29 pp plus 48 colour plates with individual Faber.
commentaries. Corvina Press. Paintings from Islamic Lands edited by R. Pinder Wilson, 100
illustrations, £3, Faber and Faber
Works selected from the Museum of Fine Arts in Greek Ornament edited by Patrick Connell, 30s, B. T. Batsford.
Budapest to illustrate this recently reconsidered Rembrandt by Joseph-Emile Muller, 58 colour plates, 77 mono­
movement. A useful survey but the poor quality of chrome illustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson. General
the colour reproductions is something of a dis­ Hogarth, The Complete Engravings by Joseph Burke and Colin
advantage. Caldwell, 267 monochrome illustrations, £5 5s, Thames and African Art by Denis Duerden (Colour Library of Art), 48 colour
Hudson.
From Theooric to Charlemagne: the Art of the Dark Ages in the plates, 17s 6d, Paul Hamlyn.
Chippendale Furniture; the Work of Thomas Chippen­ West by Paolo Verzone, 53 colour plates, 112 monochrome Art and Architecture of Mexico by Pedro Rojas, 51 colour plates
and 146 monochrome illustrations, 50s, Paul Hamlyn
dale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo Style by illustrations, £3 3s, Methuen. African Stone Sculpture by Philip Allison, 88 illustrations, 56s,
The Life and Times of Goya (Portraits of Greatness Series), 100
Anthony Coleridge. 228 pp plus 3 colour and 420 illustrations, including 50 in colour, 17s 6d, Paul Hamlyn. Lund Humphries.
monochrome plates. With appendices. notes and Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian School
bibliography. Faber and Faber. 10 gns. 15-16th Century by Fern Rusk Shapley, 445 illustrations, £7,
Pha idon Press.
Lavishly produced and beautifully illustrated; a Christian Iconography by Andre Grabar, £3 3s, Routledge and
thorough and serious study by a director of Christie. Kegan Paul.
Manson and Woods. The first publication on Chip­ Demands of Art by Max Raphael, £3 3s, Routledge and Kegan
pendale since 1924. Art Post-1830 Paul.
Buckingham Palace by John Harris, Geoffrey de Bellaigen and
Oliver Millar, introduction by John Russell, £8 8s, Thomas Nelson
An Introduction to Picture Collecting by Peter Pre-Raphaelite Imagination by John Hunt, £2, Routledge and and Sons.
Mitchell. 126 pp with 48 monochrome illustrations. Kegan Paul. Jewish Art from the Bible to Chaga/1 by Ludwig Gutfeld, 55s,
Arthur Barker. 36s. Ruskin and Turner by Luke Herrmann, 4 colour plates, 48 mono­ Thomas Yoseloff, distributed in Great Britain by W. H. Allen.
Art and Photography by Aaron Scharf, over 250 illustrations,
Professional and practical advice for those with the chrome illustrations, £3 1 0s, Faber and Faber. £5 5s, Allen Lane.The Penguin Press.
Cubism by John Golding (new edition), 4 colour plates, 141
odd hundred pounds to spend, or with plenty of time monochrome illustrations, £4 4s, Faber and Faber. Art Books: a Basic Bibliography of the Fine Arts by E. Louise
to look for bargains. The author is concerned largely Watercolour Painting in Britain: Volume 3, The Victorian Period Lucas, £2 2s, Evelyn, Adams and Mackay.
with pictures of the seventeenth to nineteenth by Martin Hardie, £6 6s, B. T. Batsford. A History of Western Art by Michael Levey, 100 colour plates, 250
monochrome illustrations, cloth £2 2s, paper 25s, Thames and
centuries. The Birth of Kinetic Art by Frank Popper, £5 5s, Studio Vista. Hudson.
The Warsaw Ghetto: Drawings by Joseph Kaliszan edited by
Czeslaw Babasiewicz, £4, Thomas Yoseloff, distributed in Great A Concise History of Bronzes by George Savage, 16 colour
Britain by W. H. Allen. plates, 193 monochrome illustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s,
Heaven and Hell in Western Art by Robert Hughes. A Concise History of Modern Painting (revised and enlarged Thames and Hudson.
288 pp illustrated throughout in colour and mono­ edition) by Herbert Read, 101 colour plates, 411 monochrome The Artist in his Studio by Alexander Liberman , 145 monochrome
chrome. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 4 gns. illustrations, cloth £2 2s, paper 25s, Thames and Hudson. illustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson.
Excellent value for the illustrations alone. principally Mondrian by Frank Elgar, 48 colour plates, 150 monochrome
of medieval and renaissance works-sculpture. paint­ illustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson.
Braque by Edwin Mullins. 30 colour plates, 174 monochrome
ings, manuscripts. woodcuts and architecture. illustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson.
The text is lively and sprinkled with quotations from The Bauhaus: 1818-1828 edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter
diverse sources. Among the subjects treated are the Gropius and Ilse Gropius, 559 monochrome illustrations, cloth Technical
35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson.
Garden of Love. the Garden of Eden, the Garden of De Stijl by H. C. L. Jaffe, 8 colour plates, 58 monochrome il­
Earthly Delights. Poussin and Watteau. the Ape in lustrations, cloth 35s, paper 21 s, Thames and Hudson. Silk-screen Printing for the Artist by Roger Marsh, 6 colour
Eden. the Body Glorious. the Medieval Theory of the Van Gogh by Meyer Schapiro, 49 colour plates, 20 monochrome plates, 88 monochrome illustrations, cloth 25s, paper 15s,
illustrations, £6 6s, Thames and Hudson.
Cosmos. The Mandorla. the Heavenly Hierarchy and Seurat by Pierre Courthion, 48 colour plates, 60 monochrome Tiranti.
Colour: Basic Principles by Patricia Sloane, cloth 25s, paper
the 'All Saints' Picture. A splendid survey. illustrations, £6 6s, Thames and Hudson. 12s 6d, Studio Vista.
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