Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the basement's cardboard coffins lies an incredible variety of artistic curios. Ranging from flamboyant pictorial designs to quiet calligraphy, most jackets in the Harvard and Kleist collections are from books of fiction, where jackets are commercially crucial. The jacket-designer's task is to capture in one visual...
Buddha died only 30 miles from Katmandu. So nearly all of Nepal's art is religious in subject matter, representing a jumbled pantheon of gods drawn from Hindu and Buddhist myths. Some of the art Professor Kramrisch dug out of muddy ditches; some she found in temples. Next week...
In the small, intricate world of extreme feminine sensibility, a girl's refusal to have a dressy wedding can open on an abyss of revolt; the look of a new apartment can call for the fanciest flight of prose. Occasionally Miss Calisher seems to hover protectively over her characters...
CREDOS AND CURIOS (180 pp.)-James Thurber-Harper & Row ($3.95).
The Sky Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to...