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Books Cornelius Cardew and People's
Liberation Music recently
Maya Cities by Paul Rivet. 234 pp, performed at The Purcell Room on
over 140 illustrations, 10 in colour, London's South Bank on 5 March at
plans, maps. Ancient cities and 7.30 pm. The programme included
temples series. Paul Elek, 1973 recent piano music by Cardew played
(reprint of 1960 edition). £5. by John Tilbury and Chinese
The scope of this factual book is Revolutionary Songs arranged by
wider than the title indicates : it Cardew and sung byJane Manning.
describes the origins and history of People's Liberation Music, the
the Mayas, their religion, culture and Marxist-Leninist rock group, consists
art, besides their cities. The author, of John Tilbury, Laurie Scott-Baker,
founder of the Musee de l'Homme, John Marcangelo and lead-singer
Paris, wrote the text in the early Vicky Silva. People's Liberation
1950s (the book was published in Music will also be at Harlech College
France in 1954), therefore no recent on 19 March, Chapter Art Centre,
research findings are included nor is Cardiff, on 20 March, and the Arnolfini
there an up-to-date bibliography. A Gallery, Bristol, on 21 March.
new edition, not a reprint, is required.
Don Judd's complete published
Gustave Dore by Nigel Gosling. writings have been put on to
112 pp, fully illustrated. Newton microfilm and can be studied at will at
Abbot, David & Charles, 1973. £3.95. the Lisson Gallery, London. The
An entertaining account of Dore's gallery have recently published
career with selections from his work Sol LeWitt's book 'The Location of
grouped thematically, eg satire, Lines' which includes some of the
adventure, horror, awe, realism, drawings that were used for the
compassion. Dore was a prolific Sol LeWitt show there last year. The
artist— his output exceeded 10,000 book is available from Lisson Gallery
items— who exploited the mass Publications, 66-68 Bell Street,
media and mechanized production London NW1, for £1.25 including
of his day, but in the end he fell postage.
victim to the monster which had
made him a success and he died of Showing at the Royal College
overwork at the age of fifty-one. of Art's Avant-Garde Film
David & Charles also publish a reprint Programme are : 4 March — 7 films
of 'Dore's London', first issued in by Kenneth Anger from Fireworksto
1872. Invocation of my Demon Brother;
11 March— Peter Kubelka's Adebar
Gustave Dore Don Quixote 1863
Art restoration by Francis Kelly. Schwechater, Unsere Afrikareise and
240 pp, fully illustrated, 2 in colour. La città Americana dalla guerra civile News & notes Mosaik im Vertranen, The Whitney's
Bibliography. Newton Abbot, David & al New Deal by Giorgio Ciucci and computer films and Taka limura's
Charles, 1973. £1.75. others. 569 pp, fully illustrated, plans, Sir Robin Darwin, CBE, RA Film Strips 1 2. 18 March —
A paperback edition of a book first maps. Rome, Editori Laterza, 1973. Sir Robin Darwin, Principal of the Bruce Conner's Vivian, Looking for
published in 1971. The word 'art' in 9500 lire. Royal College of Art from 1948 to Mushrooms and Marilyn, Pat O'Neil's
the title is somewhat misleading since A massive study of the growth of 1967, died in February. From 1967, 7362, Jordan Belson's World,
Kelly deals almost exclusively with American cities by four Italian when university status was given, Cosmos and Meditation and
repairing, cleaning and retouching scholars. It includes sections on until his retirement in 1971, he was Borowczyk's Dom. 25 March —
paintings; prints are also dealt with Daniel H. Burnham and the imperial first rector and vice-provost. His Tony Conrad's The Flicker and
and there is a chapter on forgery. city and Frank Lloyd Wright and the appointment to the College stemmed Straight Narrow and Dreyer's
Kelly ignores the issue of concept of an agrarian city. This book from a report he wrote while at the Gertrud. 1 April — Warren Sonbert's
'expendability' in recent art and he is especially valuable for its numerous Council of Industrial Design in which Where did our Love Go,
does not discuss the implications of photographs and drawings of he paid particular attention to the George Kuchar's Hold Me While I'm
soaking acrylic paint into unprimed skyscrapers, and designs for proper place of the Royal College of Naked, Malcolm Le Grice's Yes, No,
canvas, though synthetic pigments metropolises of megalomaniac Art within the national system of art Maybe and Castle II and Peter Gidal's
are briefly described in the section on proportions. education and training. He proposed a Clouds.
'painting media and technique'. widening of the college's field of The shows, which are open to the
Complete paintings of Rembrandt, activity to include disciplines as public, begin at 7.00 pm and are at
Goodnough by Martin H. Bush and introduction by Gregory Martin, notes various as light engineering, plastics The Royal College of Art, Kensington
Kenworth Moffett. 107 pp, and catalogue by Paolo Lecaldano. technology and fashion design, and Gore, London. Admission 20p.
65 illustrations, 12 in colour. 143 pp, fully illustrated, 64 in colour. emphasized the importance of
Bibliography. Wichita (Kansas) Bibliography. Classics of world art. cultivating the relationship that A Photography Bursary of £3,500
University Art Museum, Wichita State Weidenfeld Et Nicolson, 1973. £2.60. existed between all branches of art is being offered by the Arts Council of
University, 1973. S7.50. This series is published and design. Darwin's influence, Great Britain to a photographer who
A monograph on Robert internationally, a fact which explains through the success of the RCA and wishes to concentrate on his own
Goodnough, the veteran their low price and also their his own activities on the National work. (See February issue, p. x)
abstractionist of the New York impersonal, textbook character. Advisory Council on Art Education
School, who is best known for his Nevertheless each volume is packed and the National Council for Running Fence Project: the latest
individualistic efforts during the 1950s with factual material and contains a Diplomas and Design, spread Christo project is to build a 20 mile
to integrate the painterliness of fair number of colour plates. throughout art education in Great running fence from the Pacific Ocean
Abstract Expressionism with a Gregory Martin, ex Assistant Keeper at Britain and the College itself became to a point near Betaluma. The fence
structural scaffolding derived from the National Gallery, is given equal generally regarded as the leading will cut straight through the
Cubism. Goodnough has always been billing with Lecaldano on the title institution of its kind in the world. landscape, crossing several roads
an accomplished painter, albeit a page of this book but his introduction Darwin was elected a full academician including Highway 101. It will be
consolidator rather than an is only two pages long. The tricky of the Royal Academy in 1972 and constructed on a cable held by
innovator; therefore it is a matter for problem of inclusions and exclusions received a knighthood in 1964. 18 feet long steel poles sunk into the
regret that his art —judging from the relating to Rembrandt's oeuvre is ground and placed at intervals of
reproductions of his recent work in cleverly overcome by means of Marina Vaizey has been chosen between 60 and 68 feet from each
this book — has suffered a sad decline. symbols which code each painting to arrange the Critic's Choice other. The fence will be of white nylon
The essay by Moffett is reprinted from according to a particular grade of Exhibition this year at Tooth's made by Dupont, the same fabrics as
Art International, October 1970. authenticity. Gallery, 31 Bruton Street, London W1. the Valley Curtain. The cost will be