Word: book
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reflecting the ever-swelling interest of the U.S. public in art, 1959 was the biggest year ever in what was once considered a minor idiosyncrasy of publishing-the art book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the Cadillac to the hot-dog trade. Publishers are planning an even greater output for 1960. Few of the new crop are notably well written, and many offer lavish coverage of ground that has been covered before. But the boom is bringing art home to more Americans than ever before. Items...
BRAZILLER began only four years ago with one art book, now has 25 titles in the stores, plans to add another 15 next year. Says George Braziller, "None of us is putting the brakes...
Significantly, regular book publishers are eying the growing art-book market, and many have plunged in. Simon & Schuster has on its list John Canaday's clear, instructive Mainstreams of Modern Art ($12.50). Viking produced the year's loftiest cheesecake with Masterpieces...
...read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said, 'Who's he?' Rod gave me Stanislavsky's book about acting. I still have it, but I've never read it." Happily she maintains, if not the innocence, at least the ingenuousness of the grown-up little girl who never stood on a Broadway stage until two years ago. "She'll be a grande dame of the theater...
Palimpsest. In Teheran, after being questioned intensively about dealing in opium, Hadi Hashimi allowed the narcotics squad investigators to kiss his Koran as an apology for bothering him, was hauled off to jail when 375 grams of opium were discovered in a hole in the book's pages...