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were confirmed - my hypothetical important collections, art Europe 1900-1914: collectors of impressionist
top ten British film-makers would organisations, library research the Reaction to Historicism and paintings, it is primarily a
remain intact - though there collections, art periodicals and Art Nouveau, collection of illustrations.
are clearly a number of new young publishers, The bibliography is
film-makers like Rob Gawthrop highly selective but each item is by Tim Benton, Stefan Muthesius European Illustration
and Geof Beer who will be accompanied by a succinct and Bridget Wilkins. 70 pp. 74, 75
making an impact soon. I saw annotation. Among the topics for 32 plates, filmstrip; 202
nothing that challenged my future volumes are Art Therapy, illustrations (12 in colour). ed. by Edward Booth-Clibborn.
opposition to conventional Industrial Design, and Colour Bibliography. Milton Keynes: 208 pp.; fully illustrated (many in
narrative or documentary form Theory. Open University Press, 1975. colour). Constable, 1974. £10.
and the work of Amber Films, Unpriced. The first issue of a glossy
which continues the Grierson In 1975 the Open University annual devoted to 'media art', ie
tradition, was a particular Man Ray introduced a course on the history illustration serving the mass
disappointment. of architecture and design from media. According to the
The main surprise and delight by Roland Penrose. 208 pp. 1890 to 1939. This copiously introduction illustration is not
came through seeing the work 154 illustrations (20 in colour). illustrated and densely factual generally recognized as art and is
of Margaret Tait for the first time. Thames and Hudson, 1975. paperback comprises the course ignored by museums therefore
Though not completely £5.50 hardback; £2.95 paperback. units five and six (there are the purpose of this annual is to
unrecognized-her work was once This portrait of Man Ray treats twenty-four in all) and covers an preserve media art for posterity.
the subject of an Edinburgh him as an important modern extremely intricate period in An international jury selected the
Festival retrospective - her films artist in his own right but the European design. The description best examples of editorial, book,
are almost unknown in England book is not a total success it contains of the Deutscher advertising, television, cinema and
and rarely seen in her native because it attempts to be both a Werkbund is especially valuable design art from over 3,500 items
Scotland. Born in the Orkneys, biography and an art historical because little material is created by European illustrators.
to which she has now returned, monograph. available in English on this Among the artists whose work is
she studied film at the Centre subject. featured are Aldridge, English,
Sperimentale di Cinematographia Meeuwissen, Allen Jones and
in Rome, and presented her first L'art de Masse Peter Blake.
film in 1951. Working in a Egon Schiele's John A. Walker
direction which received no echo Portraits N'existe pas
of support in the films of her 443 pp. illustrated. Paris: Union
by Alessandra Comini.
generation, she has developed her Generale d'Editions, 8 Rue Art Since Pop
ideas in relative isolation. Also a (California studies in the history Garancière, Paris 6, 1974.
of art, Vol. 17). xxxii, 271 pp. By John A. Walker. 127 pp.
poet and painter, from the work I 233 plates; 200 illustrations Unpriced. 64 colour illustrations,
have seen, she must be considered (many in colour). Bibliography. This paperback - a special 63 black and white.
as the only genuinely independent, University of California Press, issue of Revue d'Esthetique Thames & Hudson. 95p.
experimental mind in film to (Nos 3-4, 1974) is very poorly
precede the current movement 1974. $65. The object of these books is
produced but it contains a
which began here in about '66. comprehensive collection of presumably to get more people to
Her work is sophisticated - she is articles on an interesting topic:' go out and look at contemporary
no primitive - and deserves a full The art of Egon `art' serving mass audiences. art. John A. Walker makes no
critical review. Following the Among the 'arts' discussed are pretence of where his sympathies
initiative of others who were Schiele pop music and theatre, garden lie, which makes for a more
similarly impressed by her show by'Erwin Mitsch. 268 pp. Kitsch, photo-novels, graffiti and prejudiced and lively read than
in Bristol, I would expect the 173 illustrations (64 in colour). street murals. is normal in guides of this kind,
NFT to present a retrospective Bibliography. Phaidon, 1975. £20. but has the disadvantage of
in the near future. Two costly volumes on narrowing a choice already
Malcolm Le Grice Schiele, the Viennese Expressionist Ceramiques de Miro et severely restricted by the shortness
whose work has been so Artigas of the text. There are a lot of
fashionable in recent years. illustrations, which is a help, and
Comini is an art historian who has by Jose Pierre & José Corredor- it's nice to see Mark Boyle
Matheos. 230 pp. fully
Books spent a decade researching illustrated (many in colour). honoured with the cover. The
revised edition could do with an
Schiele's portrait paintings,
drawings and photographs. As Bibliography. Paris: Maeght index and perhaps an
the price and weight of her Editeur, 1974. Unpriced. acknowledgement to poor old
Art and the volume indicate, it is a definitive Maeght's series on contemporary `Studio', at least in the `Further
Aesthetic : study (it even includes a artists maintains a consistently Reading' !
an Institutional Analysis photograph of the artist on his high standard of colour
deathbed as the final illustration). reproduction and this volume is
by George Dickie. Although the book by Mitsch no exception. Since 1944 Miró
204 pp. Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell reproduces examples of landscapes has collaborated with J. L. Artigas Karl Marx, Frederick
U.P., 1974. £5.20 and interiors as well as portraits to produce a vast output of Engels, on Literature
Dickie is professor of there is much duplication because ceramic sculptures, pots, and and Art
philosophy at Illinois University. Schiele was primarily a figure murals. A complete catalogue of Edited by Lee Baxandall and
He proffers a new theory of art: painter. Both books contain very the Miró-Artigas ceramics is Stefan Morawski. 179 pp.
that to define concepts of art in high quality colour plates. provided by Francoise Gaillard International General, New York.
terms of properties of artworks is and an analysis of their symbolism £3 hard, £1.25 paper. UK
mistaken and that they are in fact is attempted by José Pierre. distribution: Idea Books Ltd,
social conventions. Much of the Theo Van Doesburg 49-51 Endell St, London WC2.
content of this book has appeared Tel: 01-836 8266.
in articles in journals of by Joost Baljeu. 232 pp. Impressionism &
aesthetics but nevertheless it is fully illustrated (9 in colour). Modern Art : The main problem of marxist
helpful to have the whole Bibliography. Studio Vista, 1975. the Season at Sotheby Parke aestheticians has always been that
argument in one place. £8.50. Bernet; Marx and Engels themselves
A monograph of Van hardly ever devoted more than
American Painting : Doesburg (1883-1931), painter, ed. by Michel Strauss. incidental attention to the arts in
a Guide to Information Sources, architect, designer, theoretician, xx, 262 pp. fully illustrated their writings. Collections of
and co-founder of De Stijl. (many in colour). Sotheby Parke their references to such matters
by S. S. Keaveney. xiv, 260 pp. Almost half the book consists of - Bernet, 1974. £6. have been periodically produced
Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1974. writings by Van Doesburg; This book is useful on two since the early 'thirties and
18. reprinted are his essays on Art counts: (1) it reproduces in padded out with relevant
The first volume of a useful new Concret, Elementarism, and colour many seldom seen passages from their more general
series of information guides on Space-Time colour, plus some modern paintings and drawings; works, but-when the padding has
art and architecture. It contains a unpublished material. One (2) it records the sale prices of been removed there are not more
bibliography of American complaint: the heavy black type work by a number of than a few dozen pages on which
painting from the Colonial on very white paper produces an contemporary artists. Although the two writers concentrate their
period to the present day. Also op art effect and this tires the the book includes an essay by minds, however briefly, on
listed are museums with eyes. Douglas Cooper on the early aesthetic questions. The present
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