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...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...
FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...
PARIS IN THE PAST, by Pierre Courthion, translated by James Emmons (149 pp.; Skira; $6.50), and PARIS IN OUR TIME, by Pierre Courthion, translated by Stuart Gilbert (142 pp.; Skira; $6.50), suggest that, if poets make the best historians, then perhaps a city's best tourist guides are her painters. The mind's eye of genius is bound to catch some ineffable quality that the traveler, with or without camera, is bound to miss. That is the premise of these two books, with their 144 handsome color reproductions of Paris from the 14th to the 20th centuries, around...