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Shorter notices Current and Geldzahler. Illustrated. Pall Mall.
forthcoming books The 1930's: Painting and Sculpture in America by
William C. Agee. Pall Mall, 65s.
Helen Frankenthaler by Eugene C. Goossen. Pall
Mall, 42s.

ARCHITECTURE
Russian Architecture and the Revolution, 1917-1937,
by Anatole Kopp. Thames and• Hudson, £7 7s.
The Rise of an American Architecture, with contribu-
tions by H. R. Hitchcock, Vincent Scully and others,
the first book to treat in depth the development of
nineteenth-century American architecture. Thames
The Art of Appreciation by Harold Osborne. 296 ART PRE-1890 and Hudson, 63s.
pages with 20 monochrome illustrations. Oxford The French Impressionists and their Century by Diane An Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture by
University Press. Hard cover 50s, paperback 30s. Kelder. Pall Mall, 50s. R. W. Brunskill, provides detailed information con-
Well-produced and readable study on the nature Pre-Columbian Mexican Miniatures. A record of 84
of art appreciation by the editor of the British stone and terra-cotta miniatures from Pre-Colum- cerning building in local materials according to
local traditions. Faber & Faber, 45s.
Journal of Aesthetics. The message is that the value bian Mexico in the collection of Josef and Anni Modern Architecture in Finland by Asko Salokorpi.
of appreciation 'lies in the perfection of a human Albers. Lund Humphries, 84s. 128 pp., with 16 colour plates and 48 black and
capacity for its own sake'. No. 4 in OUP's 'The The Harari Collection of Japanese Painting and Draw- white. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 13s. (paper), 21s.
Appreciation of the Arts' series. ings, edited by J. Hillier. Two-volume set complete (hard).
with slipcase. Lund Humphries, £21. Modern Architecture in Colour by Werner Hofmann
Joseph Stella by Irma B. Jaffe. 262 pages plus 114 The Drawings of Dürer; The Drawings of Gaugin; and Udo Kultermann. Covers the period 1850
monochrome plates, colour frontispiece. Harvard The Drawings of Watteau; Medieval Drawings. until the present day in over 100 colour plates with
University Press. London: Oxford University `Masters of Drawing' series. Hamlyn, 50s. each. commentaries. Faber & Faber, £8 8s.
Press. £12. British Profile Miniaturists by Arthur Mayne, the Indian Architecture (Hindu and Buddhist) and
Exhaustive chronological account of minor Ameri- first systematic book on this school of professional Gothic Architecture. 'Architecture' series. Mac-
can modern old master, complete with texts of portraitists who worked during the last half of the Donald, 63s. each.
writings by Stella, catalogue of works illustrated, eighteenth century and the first quarter of the
check-list of works and bibliography. More colour nineteenth. Seven colour plates and 32 pages of
would have helped; in monochrome the artist monochrome illustrations. 'Faber Collectors Lib- MISCELLANEOUS
seems hardly worth so much scholarship and such a rary', 70s. Ornamental Design: A Worldwide Source Book by
high price. Classics of World Art: The Complete Paintings of Professor Claude Humbert. This is an invaluable
Breughel, Vermeer, Van Eyck, Botticelli, Piero della handbook of 1000 ornamental patterns from every
A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques by Ralph Francesca and Manet. Each volume contains 64 age and culture. Thames and Hudson, £6 10s.
Mayer. 447 pages, illustrated throughout in mono- colour plates plus numerous black and white Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and
chrome with some colour. Adam and Charles illustrations. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 40s. Linens 1700-1850 by Florence M. Montgomery.
Black. 70s. Florentine Renaissance Sculpture by Charles Avery. The first book on English textiles of this period
Useful and well-produced compendium; the dis- John Murray, 35s., paperback 20s. printed for the American market. Thames and
advantages of falling between two stools-encylo- Carolingian Art (`Arts of Mankind' series), by J. Hudson, £7.
paedia and technical dictionary - are offset by the Hubert, J. Porcher and W. F. Volbach. A survey Paris 1900: Posters of an Era by Herman Schardt.
pleasures of unlikely juxtaposition: a reference to of the great renaissance of the arts which occurred Thames and Hudson, £12 12s.
`minimal art' offers the bonus of `minium'-red in the eighth and ninth centuries. Fully illustrated. Golden Haggadah. This will be published by Phaidon
lead - the source of the term 'miniature' as applied Thames and Hudson, £10 10s. and Eugramia Press in association with the British
to manuscript illumination, for which minium was Etruria and Etruscan Art by Mario Moretti and Museum. Real gold and silver will be used in the
a principal pigment. Guglielmo Maetzke, with photographs by Leonard facsimile, which will be a limited, numbered,
von Matt. Thames and Hudson, £8 8s. edition of 500 copies at £210 each.
Notes and Projects for the Large Glass by Marcel Courbet by Georges Boudaille. Thames and Hudson, Colour and Form: Methods and Ideas for Children's Art
Duchamp. Selected, ordered and with an intro- £5 5s. by Gottfield Tritten. Batsford, 70s.
duction by Arturo Schwarz. Translated by George Van Gogh, Gaugin and the Impressionist Circle by Mark Seven Hundred Tears of Oriental Carpets by Kurt
H. Hamilton, Cleve Gray and Arturo Schwarz. Roskill. Thames and Hudson, £4 4s. Erdmann, edited by Hanna Erdmann. 20 colour
217 pages. Thames and Hudson. £12 12s. plates, over 300 monochrome illustrations and 15
Large-format, finely produced companion volume line drawings. Faber & Faber, £12.
to the Complete Works. The notes have been arranged ART POST-1890 The Arts of Africa by Rene S. Wassing. Discusses both
by Schwarz in an order 'that reflects their inherent Archipenko: International Visionary, edited by Donald the aesthetic and the anthropological aspects of
conceptual and organic, if not ideal, configuration', H. Karshan. Smithsonian Institution Press, 84s. this subject. Fully illustrated. Thames and Hudson,
and are reproduced facsimile with translations The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew by Parker £10 10s.
printed on facing pages. Cheap at the price for the Tyler. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £5 5s. Masterpieces of the Frick Collection by Edgar Munhall.
Duchampomane. Modern Finnish Sculpture by Goran Schildt. 'Modern The first comprehensive book on one of New
Arts in Finland' series, published by Weidenfeld & York's greatest collections of Old Masters. Thames
The Hand and Eye of the Sculptor, text and photo- Nicolson, 21s., paperback 13s. and Hudson, £6 6s.
graphs by Paul Waldo Schwartz. 244 pages, Kurt Schwitters by Werner Schmalenbach. Thames Treasures of the Cairo Museum: From Predynastic to
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Press. £4 5s. Praeger, New York. Roy Lichtenstein by Diane Waldman, assisted by G. Fischer. Fully illustrated. Thames and Hudson,
Short, evocative passages of prose introduce inter- Lichtenstein. Thames and Hudson, £8 8s. £4 4s.
views with Reg Butler, Cesar, Edouardo Chillida, Richard Lindner by Rolf-Gunter Dienst. Thames and Animals in Art and Thought by Francis Klingender,
Eugene Dodeigne, Roel d'Haese, Jean Ipousteguy, Hudson, 'Art Now' series, 42s. edited by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan. 300
Giacomo Manzù, Marino Marini, Henry Moore Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969 by illustrations. Routledge & Kegan Paul, £12.
and Jean Tinguely. Good in-studio (or in-garden) Robert Melville. Surveys virtually all Moore's Pre-Raphaelites and Design by Ray Watkinson. Over
photographs throughout. work from the start of his career until 1969. Thames 100 illustrations, many in full colour. Studio Vista,
and Hudson, £8 8s. £4 10s:
Medieval Drawings by M. W. Evans. 44 pages plus Modigliani Drawings by Franco Russoli. Thames Light, Colour and Environment and Principles of Colour
131 monochrome plates. Paul Hamlyn. 50s. and Hudson, £6 6s. by Faber Birren. Van Nostrand Reinhold, £9 7s.
Short introduction, followed by useful paragraphs Mondrian, in 'The Library of Great Painters', by (approx.) and £3.
on the individual plates. The range is from the sixth Hans L. C. Jaffe. Thames and Hudson, £6 6s. African `Primitives': Function and Form in African
to fifteenth centuries, and the subjects illustrated Surrealist Art by Sarane Alexandrian and Meta- Masks and Figures by G. W. Sannes. 40 pp of
include allegorical poems, celestial maps, legends, physical Art, edited by Massimo Carra. Thames and monochrome illustrations and a map. Faber, 50s.
medical and scientific treatises and architectural Hudson, each 42s., paper 25s. History of World Sculpture, by Germain Bazin with
designs. New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-70 by Henry over 1000 illustrations. Studio Vista, £8 8s.
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