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Among the many books on art, two were achievements of the first rank. One was the U.S. appearance of the first four volumes of the British Pelican History of Art, a 48-volume project. The other was Andre Malraux's The Voices of Silence, a brilliant if tantalizingly subjective musing on art through the ages. In a year when books on flying saucers and interplanetary travel became commonplace, Jonathan Norton Leonard brought the subject back to earth in his informed and sensible Flight into Space. For humor it was a sad, unsmiling period. Thurber Country, a book of characteristic...
...publishers of London's Penguin Books, who have sold more than 180 million paperbacks at 10? to 70? apiece, are working up something special for art lovers: a 48-volume Pelican History of Art, bound in cloth covers and priced at $8.50 a volume. The new series, to be published over the next twelve years, will replace the only two comprehensive histories of art in existence-one in French, one in German and both now out of date...
Editor Pevsner has two more volumes, on France and Britain, in the works for 1953, four more for 1954. And he has the best brains in art working on others-so many, in fact, that the London Times Literary Supplement once groused that "the Pelican History of Art is monopolizing many of our leading authorities...
Time was when Manhattan's influential Metropolitan Museum turned a marble-cold shoulder to modern art. In 1948, Director Francis Taylor observed that "the contemporary artist has been reduced to the status of a flat-chested pelican, strutting upon the intellectual wastelands and beaches, content to take whatever nourishment he can from his own too meager breast." In 1950, the Met began wooing the pelicans with the first of three big roundups of contemporary U.S. art-and got about as many pokes as pecks for its change of heart...
...championships. But the lineal descendants of the original simple game were so many and so varied that hardly anyone could agree on the size of the court, the resiliency of the ball, whether the game should be played barehanded, with racquets or with cestas (wicker baskets shaped like a pelican's lower bill).*Finally, to almost no one's satisfaction, it was agreed to play 18 different varieties of the game. It was also agreed that a nation automatically scored a championship point for every game it entered. Spain, a canny host-"and with plenty of cheek," said...