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to compare the abstractionist statements critical investigation. Indeed, the whole Michelangelo by Herbert von Einem, £8.00, Methuen.
published by Pougny, Malevich, et al. in a joint question of the dynamic cultural exchange Eskimo Art by Cottie Burland, £5.95, Hamlyn.
Posters by Bevis Hillier, £1.95, Hamlyn.
manifesto at `0.10. The Last Futurist between Russian and Western artists in post- Marine Painting in England 1700-1900 by David
Exhibition' (Petrograd, 1915-1916). Pougny's War Berlin has yet to be studied in detail. Cordingley, £6.95, Studio Vista.
deliberate reduction of an object to its so-called The descriptive section of the monograph is Sun Drawings: The Hill' Adamson Calotypes,
compiled by David Bruce, £6.50 and £2.95, Studio
`real essence' (`real "nost" ') and his exposure based to a considerable extent on the Vista.
and artistic manipulation of this essence, reminiscences and observations of the late Mme The Romantic Rebellion, Romantic Versus Classic
betrayed his almost scientific, laboratorial Xana Bogouslayskaya (Pougny's widow). While by Kenneth Clark, £4.75, John Murray.
A Visual Dictionary of Art, £8.50, Secker &
attitude to art, and hence anticipated the much this inclusion provides a unique first-hand Warburg.
discussed, but surely overrated, Realistic account of the avant-garde activity as witnessed Art post-1890
Manifesto of Gabo and Pevsner of 1920. The by a fellow artist (Mme Bogouslayskaya was Matisse by John Jacobus, £7.50, Thames & Hudson.
résumé of Malevich's principles, advanced herself a fine painter and energetic member of Constantin Brancusi by Barbu Brezianu, £4.50,
simultaneously at `0.10', demonstrated a the leftists both in St Petersburg and in Berlin), New Aspects of Art, Thames & Hudson.
The Language of Sculpture by William Tucker. £4.50,
rather different premise, divined immediately it introduces particularly in chapter four a few Thames & Hudson.
from his emphasis on the first person pronoun factual mistakes which a more detached, Picasso 1881-1973, edited by Sir Roland Penrose and
(Pougny's statement was impersonal); hence historical presentation might have avoided, e.g. Dr John Golding, £12.00, Elek.
The Age of the Avant-Garde by Clement Greenberg,
Malevich's very way of writing pointed to his Larionov and Goncharova are associated £5.00, Secker & Warburg.
more subjective, mystical, conception of mistakenly with the Blue Rose group, Dr Milton Glaser: Graphics and Design, £8.50, Secker &
Warburg.
painting — as was echoed in such cosmic Kul'bin is referred to as a Colonel. However, Complete Drawings by Arthur Boyd, £12.00, Secker &
assertions as 'I have destroyed the ring of the the invaluable catalogue lists, newspaper Warburg.
The Thinking Eye by Paul Klee, edited by Jurg
horizon and left the circle of objects'. Such an reviews and documentary photographs do more Spiller, £10.00, Lund Humphries.
intuitivist, even symbolist attitude to art, which than compensate for this one shortcoming, and Modern Scottish Painters:
reached culmination in his tentative equation of the very fine reproductions of works add Anne Redpath by George Bruce, £1.50, Edinburgh
certain suprematist shapes with astral qualities, immeasurably to the book's undoubted worth. University Press.
already posed a question mark above his basic In brief, this is a book which any student of Sir William MacTaggart by H. Harvey Wood, £1.50,
Edinburgh University Press.
idea of Suprematism as self-sufficient painting : the Eastern European avant garde should have, The Face of the Ruling Class & The Day of
Pougny's more clinical, more calculated although its very limited edition will soon make Reckoning by George Grosz, £3.00 and £1.95,
Alison & Busby.
approach, like Tatlin's, was surely closer, it a scarce item. One would hope that the Leon Bakst by Charles Spencer, Slipcased, £12.95
therefore, to Suprematism than Malevich demand for such a work would, however, to 31 December, 1973, £15.00 thereafter, Academy
was himself. dictate an English version in the very near Editions.
A feature which distinguished Pougny from future and that this, in turn, would inspire Matisse on Art, edited by Jack D. Flam,
Phaidon.
his colleagues was his more Western, other enlightened patrons to support the An Illustrated Dictionary of Graphic Art by John
cosmopolitan background, both on a publication of similar monographs on other Dawson and A. D. Johnson, £6.00, Elek.
Constructivism, edited by Stephen Bann, £3.75 and
biographical and on an artistic level. Whereas leaders of the Russian avant garde. £5.95, Thames & Hudson.
Malevich and Tatlin, like so many Russian qJOHN E. BOWLT Yaacov Agam by Gunter Metken, £2.75. Thames &
artists and thinkers, took specific ideas to Hudson.
73-74 Annual of New Art and Artists, edited by
extreme and contradictory lengths, Pougny Willem Sandberg, £2.50, Thames & Hudson.
worked with a more measured eye retaining a Fernand Leger by Jean Cassou and Jean Leymaire,
certain classical restraint. It comes as no £9.50, Thames & Hudson.
The Language of Pattern by Keith Albarn, Jenny
surprise, therefore, to learn that Pougny was by Mill Smith, Stanford Steele, Dinah Walker, £3.50
no means confined to the practice of a single Current and and £1.95, Thames & Hudson.
American Art of the 20th Century by Sam Hunter,
aesthetic, but embraced simultaneously £5.50, Thames & Hudson.
a variety of artistic approaches : within this forthcoming books History of Art for Young People by H. W. Janson and
broad framework Pougny was able to think in Samuel Cauman, £4.50, Thames & Hudson.
Art pre-1890 Willem de Kooning Drawings, edited by Thomas Hess,
terms of Cubism and Suprematism, to work on
Sir Joshua Reynolds by Ellis Waterhouse, £8.50, £10.50, Secker and Warburg.
sculptural reliefs and exquisite miniatures in Phaidon.
encre de Chine and to move rapidly from Stendhal and the Arts, edited by David Wakefield,
£4.00, Phaidon. Contributors to the book supplement
geometrical compositions to such arresting
Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook 4 by Sir John
pre-Dadaist pieces as White Ball (1915) and Pope-Hennessy, £7.50, Phaidon. Charles Harrison is a contributing editor to
Relief with Plate (1919). In turn, it is pleasant Alchemy: The Secret Art by Stanislas Klossowski de Studio International . Rudi Fuchs is a free-
Rola, £1.50, Thames & Hudson. lance art critic who teaches art history at the
to realize that the derivative, although no less
Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy by Philip
satisfying, cubist works for which Pougny is Rawson, £1.50, Thames & Hudson. University of Leiden, Holland . Christopher
known (such as Washing Windows 1915 and The Great Impressionists: Renoir by Francois Daulte, Neve writes for Country Life . Frank
£1.95, Thames & Hudson.
Musician 1921) form only one, less auspicious Whitford is a contributing editor to Studio
Van Gogh by Jacques Lassaigne, £1.95, Thames &
part of his total creative output. Pougny's wider Hudson. International . Rory McEwen is an artist
cultural horizon ensured him success after Toulouse-Lautrec by Philippe Huisman, £1.95, who will be having a one-man show at the
Thames & Hudson. Redfern Gallery in Spring '74 . Clive
emigration, both in Berlin and, later, in Paris. World of Art Library: El Greco by Jacques Lassaigne,
More specifically, this factor enabled him to £2.50 and £1.50, Thames & Hudson. Phillpot is Librarian at the Chelsea School of
maintain contact not only with the very transient Leonardo: A Study in Chronology and Style Art . John Elderfield is a contributing editor
by Carlo Pedretti, £4.50, New Aspects of Art, to Studio International and is now teaching at
émigré colony in Berlin (Ehrenburg,
Thames & Hudson.
Mayakovsky, Shklovsky, etc.), but also with the Constable: Paintings, Drawings and Watercolours the University of Leeds . Norbert Lynton
German connoisseurs Walden and Groeger, by Basil Taylor, £7.50, Phaidon. is Director of Exhibitions for the Arts Council
who organized Pougny's large one-man show Universal History of Art: of Great Britain . John Bowlt is visiting
Art of the Nineteenth Century by A M Vogt, £2.25,
at Der Sturm. The interesting details which the Weidenfeld. Professor in the Department of Slavonic
book provides on this exhibition serve to throw The Complete Paintings of Rembrandt introduced by languages at the University of Texas .
light on the whole Berlin period of Pougny's Gregory Martin, £2.25, Weidenfeld. Patricia Allderidge is archivist to the Bethlem
The Genius of American Painting, edited by
career; a very fertile, yet still umbrageous area of Wilmerding, £12.00, Weidenfeld. Royal Hospital and the Maudsley.
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