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SUMER: THE DAWN OF ART (397 pp.) -André Parrot-Golden Press...
...should begin with Sumer, for it was there, in lower Mesopotamia-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers-that the world's first major civilization was born. The book might have degenerated into a dry catalogue of archaeological finds; but the author of the text, André Parrot, a chief curator of the Louvre, is happily free from fustiness. Text and illustrations have been carefully synchronized: what the eye reads, it can also see at the same instant...
...great exception to the rule was the master statesman Gudea, of whom 30-odd statues have been found-"the most impressive body of sculpture," says Parrot, "erected at the behest of a single man in a single space." But even Gudea has his hands clasped, for to the Sumerians the human figure was always the worshiper. Art was a bridge between the ephemeral and the eternal; a statue was, in fact, a liberation from the world of men to the world beyond...
...Student Council is at its not as a spokesman or parrot for student body opinion, but as a pressure group. Some of the Council's most effective work--before and after 1958--has been in drafting lengthy written reports on numerous soft-spots in University affairs or educational policy. Those that are based on deliberative study and continuous interviewing are often influential and intelligent...
Soyer will go to melodramatic lengths to show his distaste for nonobjective painting. In one lecture he displayed slides of five abstract paintings, defied his audience to tell him which two were done by professional artists and which was the work of a parrot, a monkey, and a child m nursery school. "What satisfaction does one get from painting in a way that requires no knowledge, no technical skill? What pride in accomplishment can one have? Nonrepresentational art is nothing more than personalized decoration " says Soyer firmly, if barely audibly. "Good representational art is something for contemplation. Like building cathedrals...