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Other standouts range from ARP (Museum of Modern Art; $4.50) to VERMEER (Phaidon; $10). Oriental art gets a lion's share of publishers' attention, with 2000 YEARS OF JAPANESE ART (Abrams; $25) and CHINESE PAINTING (Universe; $10) among the handsomest efforts. Pelican Books offers a monumental study, ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY: 1600-1750, for $12.50. Collins has a NEW TESTAMENT (de luxe, $50) exquisitely illustrated with tipped-in reproductions from medieval manuscripts, and Praeger a compendium of ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES ($12.50). New York Graphic provides a large Henry Moore sketchbook of HEADS, FIGURES AND IDEAS...
...ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL (824 pp.)-Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Kimon Friar-Simon & Schuster...
Masterpieces of literature are hard to come by and even harder to recognize. This is particularly true when they are written in verse, and when they presumably lose their pristine shine in the process of translation. It has taken 20 years for The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to reach English in hexameter from its original modern Greek. The poem has not been translated into any other language and so is virtually unknown outside its native Greece. But in it, chances are, U.S. readers have a masterpiece at hand, in a fine translation...
Beyond the Pagan World. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is a huge repository of bloody adventure, eroticism, brutal sights and sounds, magnificent descriptions of the earth, sea and sky and all their wonders. Man's coarsest appetites and his noblest aspirations exist side by side in Odysseus, and he is as ready to seduce a simple girl by pretending to be a god as he is to admit his doubts about himself and the human condition...
...Uncle (French). Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday), who is probably the cinema's most gifted present practitioner of the sight gag, has produced a satire on the mechanization of modern living that is always pretty witty although, in movie-making terms, it is sometimes tatty Tati...