Word: spellbinding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ller's The Changing Countryside (Atheneum; $9.95), is the pictorial equivalent of music-an unbound suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall...