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Beard has in effect done for the elephant what the painter Francis Bacon -by no coincidence, the two men are close friends - did to the human body, but with the photographer's edge of documentary truth. It is unlikely that his images will save a single elephant. In a preface to his book The End of the Game (Doubleday; $9.95), whose new edition accompanies the show, Beard argues that the wild Africa of the 19th century is finished anyway, and is already beyond the ministrations of game policy: "It is too late to undo what has been done...
Gentleman and scholar, diplomat and master painter, Peter Paul Rubens was that rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
...Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats, as impassive and relentless as Kafka's bureaucrats. In such works the conjurer celebrates and mourns the human condition and shows why, despite his shortcomings and the shiftings of fashion, he remains a perennial favorite of connoisseurs as well as crowds...
...write plays, his father supported him during a trial period. Just as it ended, his comedy French Without Tears became a hit and ran for 1,039 performances in London. Rattigan's forte was, as he once said, "the play that unashamedly says nothing-except possibly that human beings are strange creatures, and worth putting on the stage, where they can be laughed at or cried over, as our pleasure takes...
...paying for it myself," explained Jerry Brown. The reason for his trip: to attend a memorial service at Westminster Cathedral for his old friend E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful. The underground bestseller, which argues for a new kind of technology on a smaller, more human scale, greatly influenced Brown's "Less is more" theories of government. During his 48-hour stay, Mr. Austerity dined with Prince Charles and paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister James Callaghan...