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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Painting: From its Beginnings to the Armory Show by Jules David Prown; The Twentieth Century by Barbara Rose. 269 pages. 2 vols. Skira. $50. How and why American art developed from West and Copley through Homer and Ryder to Pollock, De Kooning and Warhol. With anecdotes about each painter, these companion volumes provide a wieldy and informative analysis of art technique in relation to the nation's history...
...EUROPE OF THE CAPITALS 1600-1700 by Giulio Carlo Argan. 222 pages. Skira. $20. THE INVENTION OF LIBERTY 1700-1789 by Jean Starobinski. 222 pages. Skira. $20. The publisher's commendable ambition is to explore and explain Western civilization through its architecture and its art. These are volumes one and two in a series, simultaneously published in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, that will ultimately number 14. The Europe of the Capitals, with text by a professor of art history at the University of Rome, traces the decline of feudal nobility in Europe and the emergence...
TREASURES OF ANCIENT AMERICA by S. K. Lothrop. 229 pages. Skira...
...Chandler has announced that by year's end the Times-Mirror Co. will acquire the World Publishing Co. of Cleveland, whose list of titles includes such perennial bestsellers as the Holy Bible, Webster's New World Dictionary and the Skira Art Books...