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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ruben's Life of Marie de Medici by Jacques Thuillair. 158 pages, plus 108 color pages. Abrams. $125. In 1622 history's richest and most lavish painter was retained by the vainest and most powerful woman in France to create an appropriate tribute to herself. The result -more...
After 317 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, plus countless ads for everything from varnish to the Boy Scouts, Norman Rockwell is enshrined-in the U.S. at least-as "the best-known artist who ever lived." He is certainly the chronicler of one American dream, with its gawky Huck Finns...
The Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description...
This is a big year for Impressionists, and this is the year's biggest Impressionist book. Massive and beautiful reproductions, a plethora of useful notes and quotations, and a highly readable narrative text that is particularly good at recreating the sights and slurs of the salon and world against...
As the Eye Moves ... a Sculpture by Henry Moore. Photographs by David Finn; Words by Donald Hall. 160 pages. Abrams. $35. One hundred and thirty-one ways of looking at a bronze-in this case, Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop. Finn's...