Word: graphic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Specialists' Books. Art books, though generally considered all-purpose gifts, are more properly put into the specialist classification. Merely because a person has been heard to praise Van Gogh is no reason to give him an expensive work on Tunisian mosaics (the New York Graphic Society puts out an excellent Tunisian collection at $18, and if legs were offered as an optional extra, it would make a serviceable coffee table). Among the category's best : GREAT DRAWINGS OF ALL TIME (four volumes), edited by Ira Moskowitz (2,000 pp.; Shorewood; $160). The title is accurate, the selection intelligent...
Sponsored by "Artists and Writers For Hughes," the sale will include works of painters, sculptors, graphic artists and writers from throughout the country...
...misled by the lurid ads either. Summer-skin is neither torrid, frank nor provocative; it is in fact a puerile tease. Perhaps he has acted wisely in avoiding graphic scenes, since the one time he allows lovemaking to advance beyond a kiss, he loses sight of good taste entirely. Alcon's buxom nurse bursts in on her patient while he is drying himself after a shower. She grabs him, engulfs him with heavy snorts and slavering kisses, and finally pulls away the bath towel. Before the camera fades out, we are treated to a good, long vis-a-vis with...
...Chapin seeks by graphic inventiveness to "accent the point of a story, not just to produce a reference map." He avidly enjoys charting space exploration, and looks forward to "real detailed maps of the moon to work with...
...never tell what will turn up in an old Rhine castle. In 1958, poking under the beds and into the closets of Neuwied Castle, a Knoedler Art Galleries executive found water colors and sketches that completed the most graphic record known of the look and life of the American West three decades after Lewis and Clark. Last week a third of the collection went on exhibition at Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum, the rest to follow...