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...rehabilitate" an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may sound. That is what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its means is a new volume of its Phaidon series. The Paintings of Raphael ($4.50), just shipped to the U.S. (the present book of reproductions was published last winter in England). The prejudice which it seeks to correct has existed for many years among critics and criticasters in rebellion against the painter of the famous, widely and often ruinously reproduced Sistine Madonna...
MICHELANGELO-2 vols., Sculpture; Paintings-Phaidon (each...
...Phaidon Press Art Books, Oxford: RODIN ($3); RUBENS ($2.50); MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN PAINTING IN AMERICA...
...past month, outstanding have been: A TREASURY or AMERICAN PRINTS-Thomas Craven-Simon & Schuster ($3.95): †HAVE WE AN AMERICAN ART-Edward Alden Jewell-Longmans ($2.75); GIST OF ART-John Sloan-American Artists Group ($3.75); AN AMERICAN ARTIST'S STORY-George Biddle -Little, Brown ($4); RUBENS-Phaidon Edition-Oxford University Press...
...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...