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                                                                                         Eduardo Paolozzi by Uwe M. Schneede. Thames and
                                                                                         Hudson. £2.50.
                                              forthcoming books                          Joseph Albers by Werner Spies. Thames and Hudson.
                                                                                         £2.50.
    Various important monographs in the Abrams                                           Graphic Designers in Europe, vol. r. Thames and
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    Art Books series, including some new titles, are                                     Graphic Designers in the USA, vols. I & 2. Thames and
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    English Library; these include Andrew Forge                                          Wyndham Lewis: Paintings and Drawings. Text and
                                                                                         catalogue raisonné by Walter Michel with an essay by
    on Robert Rauschenberg (reviewed in our
                                              ART PRE-1890                               Hugh Kenner. Thames and Hudson. £12.60.
    November 1970 book supplement), Michael    The Art of Byzantium by Christa Schug-Wille.   Wyndham Lewis on Art edited by Walter Michel and
    Fried on  Morris Louis, Sam Hunter on  Larry   Abrams. £2.50.                        C. J. Fox. Thames and Hudson. £3.15.
                                               The Art of Rome, Etruria and Magna Graecia by   Kurt Schwitters by Werner Schmalenbach. Thames
    Rivers, and Hans Hofmann introduced by Sam
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                                              and Hudson. £2.10, paper £1.25.            Roy Lichtenstein by Diane Waldman. Thames and
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    Toynbee, Louis I Kahn, Annette Michelson,   and Hudson. £2.10, paper £1.25.          Mondrian by Hans L. C. Jaffe. Thames and Hudson.
                                               Michelangelo by Nicholas Wadley. Hamlyn.   £6.50.
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                                               Titian by Cecil Gould. Hamlyn. £1.25.    Conversations with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre
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                                               Icons in Czechoslovakia by Heinz Skrobucha. Hamlyn.   My Galleries, My Paintings by Daniel Henry
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    monochrome. Faber. Do.                     by Pierre Gassier and Juliet Wilson. Thames and   Tisdall. Thames and Hudson. £2.10, paper £1.25.
       Beautifully produced and illustrated analysis   Hudson. £18.9o.                   The Subject Matter of Painting; A Dictionary by
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                                              Thames and Hudson. £3.75.                  and Hudson. £2.10, paper £1.25.
    have affected the design of the printed page'.   Rome: The Late Empire. Roman Art AD 200-400 by   Conversation Pieces by Mario Praz. Methuen. £3.15.
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                                                                                         Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969 by
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       Well planned monograph with generous    The Temple of Konarak. Erotic Spirituality by Alan   Calder. Photographs by Ugo Mulas. Introduction by
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    full-page illustrations, a sensitive account of
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                                               The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy by Alastair   ARCHITECTURE
    conversation with the artist, and useful
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    documentation.                             Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling edited by   Jenkins. £5.
     Expressionism by Frank Whitford. 189 pp with   Charles Seymour Jr. Thames and Hudson. £2.50.   Paris Through the Ages: an Illustrated Historical Atlas
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    211 illustrations in colour and monochrome.
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     £1.75.
     Movements of Modern Art Series. Hamlyn.   Adams. Constable. £8.40.                  Architecture in Scotland by Helmut Petzsch.
                                               Introduction to Traditional Art of Western Africa by   Longmans. £1.50.
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       Readable and informative account, broken
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                                               Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of   Shridkovsky. Translated by John Milner. Studio
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                                               Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial   Vista. £3.15.
     The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley edited by   Composition 1350-1450 by Michael Baxandall. Oxford,   Auguste Perret: Writings on Architecture, edited with
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     printed. A useful addition to the material of art   Gervis Frere-Cook. Cassell. £10.50.   Modern Buildings by John Winter. Hamlyn. £r•25.
    history.                                   Erotic Art compiled by Drs Phyliss and Ekerhard   Paul Rudolph by Rupert Spade. Thames and Hudson.
                                               Kronhausen. W. H. Allen. £6.30.           £2• 10.
     Spontaneous Painting and Modelling; a practical
                                               Great Centres of Art: Budapest translated and edited   Alvar Aalto by George Baird. Thames and Hudson.
    approach in therapy by E. M. Lyddiatt. 148 pp   by Sylvia Furness. Thomas Yoseloff. £8.
     plus 6 colour and 41 monochrome illustrations.   Great Centres of Art: Belgrade translated and edited by   Eero Saarinen by Rupert Spade. Thames and Hudson.
     Constable. £2.50.                         Sylvia Furness. Thomas Yoseloff. £8.      £2.10.
                                               Victorian Illustrated Books by Percy Muir. Batsford,   Frank Lloyd Wright: Private Houses by Martin
       Descriptions of work by some forty      £6.                                       Pawley. Thames and Hudson, £2. 10.
    psychiatric patients, accompanied by their own   Coptic Art by P. du Bourget. Methuen. £3.15.   A History of Ottoman Architecture by Godfrey
                                                                                         Goodwin. Thames and Hudson. £10.50.
    words. The author was trained as an artist and   Eugene Delacroix. Selected Letters edited and trans-
                                               lated by Jean Stewart. Introduced by John Russell.   Thomas Cubitt: Master Builder by Hermione
    has worked as a therapist in several hospitals.   Eyre and Spottiswood. £6.          Hobhouse. Macmillans. £12.60.
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