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have been collected 'down to the last scrap' Current and Books). £6.25
and are presented in their 'raw' state, ie type- Ellsworth Kelly by E.C. Goosen. MOMA (UK
and handwritten. 'The typewriter' was forthcoming books distribution by Idea Books). $12.50 or £7.75
commissioned by Esquire magazine as an Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and
archaeological investigation into the Happening Premises by Albert Elsen. Phaidon. f6.00
and is a particularly valuable script because it Art and Photography by Aaron Scharf. Penguin.
records in detail the creation of a Happening £1.75
from inception to final draft. Three Painter-Poets, Arp/Schwitters/Klee,
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, while most Selected Poems. Penguin. f0.80
British artists were looking to America, the Art pre-1890 Regards sur le passé et autres textes 1912-1922
Italian Paintings: Venetian School by Frederico
Germans Otto Piene and Heinz Mack were by Wassily Kandinsky. Collection Savoir. 34 Fr
establishing in Düsseldorf a trans-European Zeri & Elizabeth E. Gardner. New York Londoners: photographs by Nancy Hellebrand.
grouping of avant-garde artists known as 'Zero'. Graphic Society. £7.95 Lund Humphries. £2.95
Their magazine Zero appeared three times and American Impressionism by Richard J. Boyle. The Triumph of Art Nouveau, Paris Exhibition
has now been reprinted by the MIT Press with New York Graphic Society. £13.75 1900 by Philippe Jullian. Phaidon. £4.50
the addition of English translations and an The Art of Tantra by Philip Rawson. New York Tinguely by K.G. Pontus Hulten. Thames &
introduction by Lawrence Alloway. Zero I was Graphic Society. £6.95 Hudson. £8.50 or £25 for special edition
devoted to monochrome painting, Zero 2 to The Barbizon School by Jean Bouret. New Schiele in Prison by Alessandra Comini. Thames
vibration and motion, and Zero 3 to York Graphic Society. £14.95 & Hudson. £4.00
Environmental and Elemental art. Among the The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art from Leon Underwood by Christopher Neve. Thames
artists who contributed statements were Klein, the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day by & Hudson. £6.00
Manzoni, Tinguely, Fontana and Spoerri. All Michael Sullivan. New York Graphic Society. Constantin Brancusi by Barbu Brezianu.
art libraries should acquire a copy of this £8.25 Thames & Hudson. £4.50
important source-book. On Literature and Art by Karl Marx and Towards Sculpture: Maquettes and Sketches
Through his 'sky art' projects Otto Piene Frederick Engels (first of series 'Documents on from Rodin to Oldenburg by N.J. Strachan.
continues to advocate environmental art forms Marxist Aesthetics' ('DOMA')) editors/ Thames & Hudson. £6.50
with a social purpose; he envisages the artist not translators Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski. The Language of Sculpture by William Tucker.
so much as an object maker but as a planner International General Editions, Inc. (a new Thames & Hudson. £5.00
and a provider of information. The first part of publisher: PO Box 350, New York, NY 10013; Environments and Happenings by Adrian Henri.
his book 'More Sky' consists of an alphabetical 173 Av. de la dhuys, 93170 Bagnolet, France. Thames & Hudson. Hard £2.50, Paper £1.50
sequence of 'things to do' and the second part UK Distribution: Leeds Books Ltd, 84 Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism by J.M.
contains a 'wind manual', ie designs for flags, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 8AB (tel: 445905)) Nash. Thames & Hudson. £0.95
banners, kites, etc. In layout Piene's text Hard 0.00/$2.95 Dada and Surrealism by Dawn Ades. Thames &
resembles that of children's books: the printing Caspar David Friedrich by Helmut Borsch- Hudson £0.95
is very large and is illustrated by exuberant Supan. Thames & Hudson. £10.50 Pop by Simon Wilson. Thames & Hudson.
drawings executed with felt-tipped pens. The Northern Romantic Tradition in Painting: £0.95
In contrast to the optimistic energy of Friedrich to Rothko by Robert Rosenblum. Cezanne by Marcel Brion. Thames & Hudson.
Piene's book, that by Jacques-Louis Nyst is Thames & Hudson. £6.00 £1.95
restrained and oblique. His paperback is The Flowering of American Folk Art: 7 776- Degas by Antoine Terrasse. Thames & Hudson.
concerned with the way our readings of images 1876 by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester. £1.95
is conditioned by their context and with the Thames & Hudson. £6.00 Gauguin by Daniel Wildenstein and Raymond
relationship between photographic images and Germain Painting: From Romanticism to Cogniat. £1.95
various elements abstracted from them. Expressionism by Ulrich Finke. Thames & Yaacov Agam by Gunter Metken. Thames &
Batterton's tongue-in-cheek autobiography Hudson. £6.00 Hudson. £2.75
consists of a selection of photographs from the El Greco by Jacques Lassaigne. Thames & Matisse by John Jacobus. Thames & Hudson.
family album. Artists in the United States Hudson. Hard £2.50, Paper £1.50 £2.75
continue to record the minutiae of their daily Venetian Art from Bellini to Titian, a selection The Blaue Reiter Almanac by Wassily Kandinsky
lives, much to the alarm of information of essays by the late Johannes Wilde. Oxford and Franz Marc, introduction by Klaus Lankheit.
scientists, who suspect that their sophisticated University Press. Hard £3.50, Paper £1.00 Thames & Hudson. Hard £3.75, Paper £1.95
retrieval systems are being used to store 'noise'. An Introduction to Islamic Art. Hamlyn. £1.95 Constructivism, edited by Stephen Bann.
John A. Walker An Introduction to African Art, Hamlyn. £1.95 Thames & Hudson. Hard £3.75, Paper £1.95
A Doré Gallery. Hamlyn. £3.95 Theo Van Doesburg, his writings introduced by
Sketches of Turner, R.A., 1802-1820: genius Joost Baljeu. Studio Vista. £4.95
Howard Daniel is a writer, living in Switzerland of the Romantic by Gerald Wilkinson. Barrie & George Grosz by Hans Hess. Studio Vista. £8.00
... Martin Green is a director of the publishing Jenkins. £7.50. Salt Seller: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp,
company Martin, Brian and O'Keefe ... The Anatomical Works of Stubbs by Terence edited by Michel Sanouillet. Oxford University
Ronald Hunt is senior lecturer in the history of Doherty. Secker & Warburg. £15.00 Press. £6.00
art at Stourbridge College of Art ... Victor Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by African Art: The Years Since 1920. David and
Schonfield is the Director of Music Now, the James Hall. John Murray. £6.00 Charles. £6.95
concert society which promotes new A Dictionary of Expressionism by J oseph-Emile
developments in music ... Robin Spencer is Art post-1890 Muller. Eyre Methuen. £1.50
director-designate of the Krazy Kat Arkive, Miro, in the collection of the Museum of A Dictionary of Surrealism by José Pierre.
St Andrews University ... Francis Strauven is a Modern Art by William Rubin. MOMA (UK Eyre Methuen. £1.50
Belgian architect ... John A. Walker is an distribution by Idea Books). $15.00 or £9.25 Collected French Writings by Jean Arp. Calder
artist and writer ... Frank Whitford teaches An Invitation to See, 125 paintings from the & Boyars. £7.50
art history at Homerton Teachers' Training collection of the Museum of Modern Art, by Pictures as Arguments by Hans Hess. Sussex
College. Helen Franc. MOMA (UK distribution by Idea University Press. £3.00
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