New Art Books From U.N.E.S.C.O.

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31904, 4 February 1969, Page 8

New Art Books From U.N.E.S.C.O.

Six new titles recently appeared in the U.N.E.S.C.O. art pocketbook series. The paper-back editions are on the painters Gauguin, Matisse, Van Dyck, and the sculptor Alexander Calder: a fifth deals with Oceanic art and the sixth with ancient Greek sculpture. Each edition contains 30 colour plates and has a foreword by an art expert. In the Gauguin work, with a text by the British art critic, John Russell, two seldom seen self-portraits are reproduced, as well as a selection of the artist’s better known canvases from Brittany and Polynesia. “Matisse and the Nude,” with an introduction by Alan Bowness of the Courtauld Institute of London, contains 30 reproductions of Matisse’s nudes painted in almost as many styles. In “Van Dyck,” the four periods in the artist’s career are illustrated. David Piner, curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, contributes the foreword.

The “Ancient Greek Sculpture.” described bv the French author, Francois Chamoux, is to be found in ♦he museums of Athens. The illustrations range from the i Mycenaean Period sixteenth

century B.C. to the second century B.C. "Oceanic Art: The Sepik Area of New Guinea,” contains 32 colour plates of primitive works by a headhunting tribe. They are made from wood, clay, hair, feathers and shells. The Illustrations in “Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles” were chosen with an eye to colour appeal and most are in gay primary tones.