Colour Pls Research Articles

STUDYING RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS: The historian and the connoisseur

Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy by Francis Ames‐Lewis, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981, 196 pp., 182 ills, 8 colour pls, £15The Draftsman's Eye — Late Renaissance Schools and Styles by Edward J. Olszewski, Cleveland: Indiana University Press for The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981, 177 pp., 172 ills, £16.50European Drawings, 1375–1825 by Cara B. Denison and Helen B. Mules, New York, Oxford and Toronto: Oxford University Press for the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, 291 pp., 143 ills, 8 colour pls, £35

FACT AND FICTION: Some recent books on the history of dress

Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince, A Study of the Years 1340–1365 by Stella Mary Newton, Bury St Edmunds: Boydell Press, 1980, 151 pp., 40 ills, 1 colour pl, £20Late Gothic Europe, 1400–1500 by Margaret Scott, London: Mills & Boon, 1980, 272 pp., 170 ills, 16 colour pls, £25Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400–1500 by Jacqueline Herald, London: Bell & Hyman, 1981, 272 pp., 160 ills, 16 colour pls, £30

A NEW JAPONISME

The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600–1868 (London, Royal Academy), edited by Professor William Watson, London: The Royal Academy of Arts in association with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981, 365 pp., 412 catalogue entries, 98 colour pls, £9.95 paper

CLOISONISM?

Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism (Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario) by Bogomila Welsh‐Ovcharov, Toronto, 1981, 380 pp., 300 ills, 32 colour pls, £32What we're reviewing is the book of an exhibition – not the exhibition. In scope and curatorial strategy Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism was smaller than De David à

LIGHT RELIEF AND SOME COLOUR

The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workship Apprentices by Iain Bain, London: Gordon Fraser, 1981, 2 vols, 528 pp., 46 figs, 431 ills, 202 colour pls, £125

Reviews

The Berlin Secession, Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany by Peter Paret, Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 269pp., 11 ills, 2 colour pls, £10.50Turner en France (Paris, Centre Culturel du Marais) edited by Jacqueline and Maurice Guillaud, 1981, 637 pp., 1,136 ills including colour pls, c. £15The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse, Oxford: Phaidon Press and Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1979, 96 pp., 42 ills, 28 colour pls, £5.95The Image of Augustus by Susan Walker and Andrew Burnett, London: British Museum Publications, 1981, 47 pp., 46 ills, £2.95The Gauls, Celtic Antiquities from France, London: British Museum Publications, 1981, 41 pp., 99 ills, £4.95

AFRICAN ART AND THE COLLECTABLE ARTIFACT

Collecting African Art by Werner Gillon, London: Studio Vista in association with Christie's, 1979, 193 pp., 216 ills, 35 colour pls, £25The Art of Benin by Paula Ben‐Amos, London: Thames & Hudson, 1980, 96 pp., 53 ills, 48 colour pls, £4.95The Visual Arts. Plastic and Graphic edited by Justine Cordwell, The Hague: Mouton, 1979, xii and 818 pp., 328 ills, £42.45The Fabrics of Culture edited by Justine M. Cordwell and Ronald A. Schwarz, The Hague: Mouton, 1979, 532 pp., 210 ills, £29The Anthropology of Art by Robert Layton, London: Granada & Paul Elek, 1981, 237 pp., 68 ills, £15

W. J. Phillips and N. Phillips An introduction to mineralogy for geologists. Chichester and New York (J. Wiley and Sons), 1980. xiv+352 pp., 450 figs., 8 colour pls. Price: soft cover £6.95, cloth £17.50.

W. J. Phillips and N. Phillips An introduction to mineralogy for geologists. Chichester and New York (J. Wiley and Sons), 1980. xiv+352 pp., 450 figs., 8 colour pls. Price: soft cover £6.95, cloth £17.50.

‘GROSS DAVID, WITH THE SWOLN CHEEK’

Jacques‐Louis David by Anita Brookner, London: Chatto & Windus, 223pp, 112 ills, 4 colour pls, £25

BLAKE AND THE INTERPRETERS

The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake by Martin Butlin, New Haven and London: published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1982, 1408 pp, 919 ills, 239 colour pls, 2 vols, £125William Blake's Designs for Edward Young's Night Thoughts edited by David V. Erdman, John E. Grant, Edward J. Rose, Michael J. Tolley, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, 868 pp, 580 ills, 78 colour pls, 2 vols, £150William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Milton by Pamela Dunbar, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, 208 pp, 92 ills, £20

CAUSES AND CIRCUMSTANCES

The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany 1475–1525 by Michael Baxandall, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, 456 pp., 274 ills, 4 colour pls, £25

EDWARD HOPPER — RECENT STUDIES

Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist by Gail Levin, New York and London: W.W. Norton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980, 304 pp., 262 ills, 281 colour pls, £19.95Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints by Gail Levin, New York and London: W.W. Norton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979, 114 pp., 163 ills, £9.95Edward Hopper as Illustrator by Gail Levin, New York and London: W.W. Norton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979, 273 pp., 600 ills, 86 colour pls, £15.95

‘HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF AS FARCE’

German Romanticism and English Art by William Vaughan, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, 308 pp., 173 ills, £22.50William Dyce, 1806–1864 by Marcia Pointon, with a foreword by Quentin Bell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, 229 pp., 163 ills, 1 colour pl., £28Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World by David Allan Robertson, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978, 468 pp., 200 ills, 2 colour pls, £30.60William Mulready by Kathryn Moore Heleniak, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, 287 pp., 200 ills, 8 colour pls, £25

MODERNISM AND MODERN ART HISTORY

The Story of Modern Art by Norbert Lynton, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1980, 382 pp., 212 ills, 85 colour pls, £13.95The Shock of the New; Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes, London: BBC Publications, 1980, 69 ills, 192 colour pls, £15.15

STYLE AND SPIRITUALITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY

Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century edited by Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979, in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 767 pp., 692 ills, 16 colour pls, £25.10

Book Review

Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective (New York, The Museum of Modern Art), edited by William Rubin, New York, 1980, 464pp., 550 ills, 208 colour pls, 181 reference ills, £25 cloth, £9.95 paperPicasso's Guernica by Frank D. Russell, London: Thames & Hudson, 1980, 334 pp., 450 ills, £12.50Proudhon, Marx, Picasso by Max Raphael, New Jersey: Humanities Press, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1980, 174 pp., £8.50Picasso in Retrospect edited by Sir Roland Penrose and Dr John Golding, London: Granada, 1981 (first pub. 1973), 207 pp., 9 ills, £4.50Picasso, his life, his art edited by Domenico Porzio and Marco Valsecchi, intro. by John Russell, London: Secker & Warburg, 1979, 108 ills, 164 colour pls, £12.95 cloth, £6.95 paper.

GERMAN ROMANTICISM

German Romantic Painting by William Vaughan, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, 260 pp., 163 ills, 32 colour pls, £19.95

Book Review

Landscapes of Memory by Gerald Finley, London: Scolar Press, 1980, 272 pp., 108 ills, £30Turner and the Sublime by Andrew Wilton, London: British Museum Publications, 1980, 106 ills, 32 colour pls, £12.95

WHISTLER ‐ THE HEROISM OF HIS MODERN LIFE, THE PERFECTION OF HIS INCOMPLETION

The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler by Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret MacDonald, Robin Spencer, with the assistance of Hamish Miles, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980, 670 pp., 313 ills, 123 colour pls, £80

(D.) Elwell. Man-made gemstones. Chichester (Ellis Horwood Ltd., distributed by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.), 1979. 192 pp., 46 figs., 9 colour pls. Price £15.00

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