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RADU FLORESCU 223 pages. New York Graphic...
...more intangible qualities of night-time animation or a feel for driving down the strip at 70 miles an hour. And much of the language is quite technical planning jargon. Phrases such as vehicular behavior or scales of movement punctuate the writing. The amount of verbal effort and fancy graphic display that he uses to describe the relation of the signs to the buildings, the buildings themselves, and the parking lots seem intended to force an admission--the strip should be an inspiration for all future architecture in this country...
...CUNARD WHITE STAR QUADRUPLE-SCREW LINER QUEEN MARY 340 pages. New York Graphic Society. $19.95. A facsimile reprint of The Shipbuilder and Marine Engine-Builder souvenir edition, which was first published in 1936 to commemorate the maiden run of Britain's most beloved seagoing queen. Staggering in its detail: deck plans, photographs and descriptions of machinery, interiors of accommodations. A brief, highly literate biography carries the great liner through World War II service as a troop transport (it accidentally rammed and sank a British cruiser in 1942), and into its sad second life as a tourist attraction in Long...
...Point has thus far based its claim for individuality largely on the lavish use of color and other graphic devices that seem to be borrowed from a number of magazines, including TIME, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. L'Express typography is bland by comparison. The new magazine has also developed strong feature departments, and is crisply written. Stories on the huge new skyscrapers destroying Parisian vistas and on the ecological dangers of the plastics industry broke new ground. But so far Le Point has not matched L'Express's skill at gathering hard news. With...
Harry Callahan testifies to the photographer's involvement with the graphic arts. His "Multiple Exposure Tree" with fine-lined branches appears to be an ink sketch rather than a photograph; the circular motion, spontaneity and simplicity of coal black against white evoke the calligraphy and bold brush strokes of Japanese artists...