Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ABRAMS, which began with three art books in 1950, published 20 this fall (including the magnificent Italian Villas and Palaces at $17.50) and will offer a spring list of 14 more, headed by a $100 volume on the Vatican collection.
CROWN has done a lot for students of all ages with its paperbacks filled with color reproductions beautifully printed in Japan and Europe, at $1.25 to $1.95. Crown's 1960 list of art books, set at 15 titles, will be half again as large as this year's...
Most ambitious plunge of all is Encyclopedia of World Art, announced by McGraw-Hill. Undertaken jointly with Rome's Institute for Cultural Collaboration, it is probably the greatest venture ever in art publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be...
Small, strong, passionate and fearless, Koerner says exactly what comes into his head and draws exactly what comes into his eyes. This "I gives his conversation and his drawings a startling immediacy. But his paintings are something else again: mysterious distillations "of long and apparently anxious thought. It took him...
¶ Junk Pile makes dramatic use of a favorite Koerner device: psychological perspective. The Negro workman looms twice the size of the Plymouth in the foreground, simply because he is more important. In fact, Koern says, he represents a god of darkness and regeneration, just as the fat man sunning...