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SELF PORTRAITS by Manuel Gasser. 302 pages. Appleton-Century. $12.95. For four centuries it has been an unwritten law that an artist must look himself straight in the eye at least once in his lifetime and paint what he sees. This collection does not reproduce the artists' visions with particular distinction, but it is a comprehensive survey of the self-conscious art from Masaccio (1401-28) to Joan Miró and his grotesquely purple Self-Portrait of 1938. The lesson of the book is that a true painter always reveals more of himself than he knows-or perhaps wishes...
...fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular. Dr. Ox is a gasser...
Autos Close. Best in the "Pet Foods and Products" group, for example, was the Gaines Gravy Train gasser, where all those little ducklings eat out of the same bowl with a Great Dane. Polaroid's little boy with the trumpet, playing Minuet in G while his daddy snaps his picture, was tops in "Gifts, Cameras, Watches." The competition in the "Auto Accessories" classification was fantastically close and exciting. Goodyear's frustrated commuter, with his summer treads spinning in a snowdrift, just edged out Purolator Oil Filter's Moonlight Ride-the one with the terrific looking girl...
Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman is a gasser in a grab bag of disguises, ends up as a con man conned con amore...
Love and Larceny. Vittorio Gassman is a gasser in a grab bag of disguises, ends up as a con man conned con amore...