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NOTHING PERSONAL by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin. Atheneum...
...INTERROGATION by J.M.G. Le Clezio. 243 pages. Atheneum...
...KIND OF ANGER by Eric Ambler. 311 pages. Atheneum...
...ITALIANS by Luigi Barzini. 352 pages. Atheneum...
Aristocrats as Shepherds. From the porcelain, etchings, and gold-and silverwork at the Atheneum, it is evident that rococo was a way of life, abandoned, whimsical, undemanding. Artisanship lavished on a table centerpiece produced a jungle of gilt. The etchings tell of nature tamed in a palace park, where artificial ruins and Chinese pagodas were built to provide fantasy...