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Géricault's Raft of the Medusa by Lorenz Current and Circle, edited by. J. L. Martin, Ben Nicholson &
Eitner. 176 pp, 158 monochrome illustrations. N. Gabo, £1.50, Faber paperback.
The Essential Max Ernst, by Uwe M. Schneede, with
Phaidon hardback. £9. forthcoming books 403 illustrations, 15 in colour, £2.50 & £1.50,
Professor Lorenz Eitner is Chairman of the Thames & Hudson.
Futurist Manifestos, edited by Umbro Apollonio, with
Department of Art at Stanford and the ultimate Art pre-1890 146 illustrations, 8 in colour, £2.50 & £1.50, Thames
Gothic Art, by F. Deuchler, 26 colour and 16o black
authority on Géricault. This book traces step by and white illustrations, £2.25, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. & Hudson.
step the evolution of the painting which was to Nineteenth Century Art, by A. M. Vogt, 36 colour and Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century
150 black and white illustrations, £2.25, Weidenfeld
make the artist famous. Every known drawing or & Nicolson. Art, by Leo Steinberg, 448 pages, 275 plates, £5.00,
Oxford University Press.
painting relating to it is illustrated, which The Complete Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec, Jackson Pollock, by B. H. Friedman, 32o pages, 32
accounts for half the book. In fact the work introduction by Denys Sutton, £2.60, Weidenfeld & pages of illustrations, £4.85, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
involved in this one picture eventually amounted Nicolson. Braque: The Great Years, by Douglas Cooper, 116
The Complete Paintings of Rembrandt, introduction by pages, 17 pages colour, zoo black and white
to a considerable portion of Géricault's total Gregory Martin, £2.6o, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. illustrations, £3.00, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
oeuvre. The pictures make this production less Italian Art, by André Chastel, £3.25, Faber Munch: The Scream, by Reinhold Heller, £1.95,
depressingly in-depth than it sounds and the paperback. Allen Lane.
Hieronymus Bosch, by Walter S. Gibson, with 143
Picasso, Advisory Editors : Sir Roland Penrose &
print is large and clear, too large and clear illustrations, 18 in colour, £2.50 & £1.50, Thames & Dr John Golding, 43o mono illustrations, 24 colour
perhaps, thus accounting for the exorbitant Hudson. plates, £12.00, Elek.
Winslow Homer, by John Wilmerding, 24 pages,
price. The cover is terrible as well. Not for Architecture
£10.50, Pall Mall.
students, for whom presumably it is written. The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, by Allen Staley, 208 Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, by Peter
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art pages, 108 plates, 8 in colour, £12.50, Clarendon Collins, £1.60, Faber paperback.
The Modulor, by Le Corbusier, £1.00, Faber
42o pp, 66 monochrome illustrations. Phaidon. Press. paperback.
Late Nineteenth-Century Art, edited by Hans Jurgen
£5.50. Hansen, illustrated, £12.60, David & Charles. Victorian Architecture, by James Stevens Curl,
1,60o entries on individuals and 14o on Stendhal and the Arts, edited by David Wakefield, 176 illustrated, c. £3.75, David & Charles
groups. The illustrations are wildly biased in pages, 24 illustrations, c. £4.00, Phaidon. John Nash, by Terence Davis, illustrated, £4.50,
David & Charles.
The Art of the European Renaissance, by Giles
favour of the British. Robertson, 256 pages, 220 illustrations, 8 in colour, Elements of English Architecture, by Hugh Braun,
c. £3.75, & c. £1.75, Phaidon. illustrated, c. £3.95, David & Charles.
Pisanello, by Giovanni Paccagnini, 240 pages, 200
Italian pleasures illustrations, 20 in colour, c. £12.150, Phaidon. On Neoclassicism, by Mario Praz, paperback, £1.95,
Thames & Hudson.
Tesi by Vincenzo Agnetti. Illustrated, 78 pp. Prince of the Renaissance: The Life of Francois I, by The Architecture of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall,
Giampaolo Prearo Editore. L. 4000. Desmond Seward, 264 pages, 4o coloured and 152 introduction by Reyner Banham, £4.00, Lund
Humphries.
Ugo Nespolo by Enrico Crispolti. Illustrated and black and white illustrations, £5.00, Constable. The Face of London, by Richard Gloucester, 12o
furnished, 16o pp. Giampaolo Prearo Editore. Leon Battista Alberti: 'On Painting' and 'On pages, 148 illustrations, 8 in colour, c. £2.25, Phaidon.
Sculpture', edited and translated by Cecil Grayson,
The Lighting of Buildings, by R. G. Hopkinson &
L. 9500. 176 pages, 8 illustrations, c. £4.00, Phaidon. J. D. Kay, Imo half-tone and 29 line illustrations,
Giulio Turcato by Giorgio de Marchis. Michelangelo, by Herbert von Einem, translated by £5.50 & £2.20, Faber.
Ronald Taylor, 2150 pages, 147 half-tone and 14 line
Illustrated, 270 pp. Giampaolo Prearo Editore. illustrations, c. £6.00, Methuen. A Pictorial History of English Architecture, by John
L. 12000. Reynolds, by Ellis Waterhouse, c. zoo pages, 112 Betjeman, many photographs, some in colour, £5.00,
illustrations, 16 in colour, c. £8.50, Phaidon. John Murray.
It is a pleasure to see three very interesting and The Greek Revival, by J. Mordaunt Crook, 2150
Italian Miniatures, edited by Mario Salmi, £5.25,
differing books coming all at once from a single Collins. photographs, £1o, John Murray.
publisher, and one need not necessarily be an Art post-1890 English Church Architecture Through the Ages, by
Leonora and Walter Ison, 128 pages, 48o line
Italian scholar to appreciate the three at hand. Six Years: the dematerialization of the art object drawings, £2.00, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Indeed Crispolti's treatment of Nespolo from 1966 to 1972, edited by Lucy R. Lippard, 256
includes a sweetly brief and lucid 'English Text' pages, 130 illustrations, £4.60, Studio Vista. Miscellaneous
Modern Landscape Painting, by Pier Carlo Santini, c.
Visual Aesthetics, by J. J. de Lucio-Meyer, £4.25 &
by way of epilogue. 3150 pages, 245 illustrations, 52 in colour, 35 text £2.95, Lund Humphries.
drawings, £11.00, Phaidon. A Short History of Chinese Art, by Michael Sullivan,
Agnetti's Tesi could, nevertheless, puzzle the Introducing Op Art, by John Lancaster, 112 pages, 95 Los, Faber paperback.
layman insufficiently coached in hieroglyphs. illustrations, 5 in colour, £1.90, Batsford. The Social Context of Art, edited by Jean Creedy, 224
Its epigraph, Nunc ipsum, gives the reader a Henri Matisse (two volumes), by Louis Aragon, pages, £1.25 & £2.60, Methuen.
break. Then there are three parts, which £28.00, Collins. World Cinema: A Short History, by David Robinson,
The Art of the Old West, by Paul Rossi and David 432 pages, £4.150, Eyre Methuen.
dissolve into littler parts, which in turn break Hunt, £8.00, Collins. The Notebook of William Blake, edited by David V.
out in little black, wet dots, a phenomenon I Paul Nash, by Margot Eates, 183 reproductions, 28 in Erdman, 36o pages, £16.00, Clarendon Press.
colour, c. £7.50, John Murray. Looking at Pictures, by Kenneth Clark, 75 half-tone
have often remarked in other books at the ends
Ivon Hitchens, edited by Alan Bowness, £12,00, illustrations, 6 details in colour, £2.00, John Murray.
of sentences. They are more casually purveyed Lund Humphries. Sexual Alienation in the Cinema, by Raymond
here — one page is packed out with them — and Functions of Painting, edited by Edward F. Fry, 3r Durgnat, 320 pages, 2150 illustrations, £4.80, Studio
illustrations, £3.75 & £1.95, Thames & Hudson. Vista.
there are some curious mathematics as well:
Constructivism, edited by Stephen Bann, 39 Paintings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, by
2 X 2 = 10, 3 X 4=8, 9 x 9 =1.4. Things were illustrations, £3.75 & £1.95, Thames & Hudson. Klara Garas, with 396 illustrations, 52 in colour,
different in my day. Sickert, by Wendy Baron, 412 pages, 302 illustrations, £2.50 & £1.50, Thames & Hudson.
Crispolti's book about Ugo Nespolo is 4 in colour, c. £18.00, Phaidon. Graphics, by Alec Davis, many illustrations in
Egon Schiele, by Rudolf Leopold, 676 pages, 228
highly entertaining. There is a page which you illustrations, 84 in colour, c. 400 text illustrations, monochrome and colour, c. £4.00, Faber.
Art and Visual Perception, by Rudolf Arnheim, £1.95,
can decorate with strands of wool yarn, for one slip-case, c. £60.00, Phaidon. Faber paperback.
Matisse: Writings on Art, translated and edited by
thing, and there are other artistic games. Jack Flam, c. 200 pages, 48 illustrations, £3.50, Art and Audacity: The Trial of an Art Gallery
Director, by T. J. Honeyman, 150p, Collins.
There are several photographs of the artist in a Phaidon. Heath Robinson, by John Lewis, 224 pages, 36 plates,
variety of conditions, and he has a good, lucky Art and Culture, by Clement Greenberg, £3.00 & 95p, 4 in colour, over 100 line drawings, £5.00, Constable.
face. Thames & Hudson. Celtic Art, by Ian Finlay, 124 monochrome half-tone
Art in America, by Richard McLanathan, 189
illustrations, 4 colour plates and 46 line drawings,
Giorgio de Marchis' celebration of Turcato is illustrations, 3o in colour, £2.50 & £1.50, Thames & £9.00, Faber.
an elegantly produced volume in a series of Hudson. An Illustrated Dictionary of the Graphic Arts, by John
Grandi Opere Monographichi. The biographical Cubism, by John Golding, £2.25, Faber paperback. Dawson, 304 pages, 200 illustrations, £6. Elek.
Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy, by Philip Rawson,
The Mind and Work of Paul Klee, by Werner
sections contain a great deal of adulatory waffle; Haftmann, £ x.00, Faber paperback. 200 illustrations, 32 in colour, £3.50 & £1.50, Thames
Turcato is, for example, described as a Paul Klee on Modern Art, by Paul Klee, 150p, Faber & Hudson.
paperback. Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook 4, edited by
religious cult.
Pedagogical Sketchbook, by Paul Klee, 75p, Faber John Pope-Hennessy, 1150 pages, illustrations in black
TIMOTHY CRAIG paperback. and white and in colour, c. £7.50, Phaidon.
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