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NEWS AND NOTES Since Something Else Press has disbanded, many of their books are being remaindered. Our librarians should take advantage of these books which are selling for as little as one dollar. We are sure that in a very short time, they will be located and found only through rare book dealers at exorbitant prices. MUST READING

Design Quarterly 94/95 features "The Design Reality", the

proceedings of the Second Federal Design Assembly, which attracted 800 to Washington to cover federal activity in design and architecture. The journal may be ordered from Walker Art Center, Vine land Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403, now offering five issues for the price of four ($5.00).

Rapahel Soyer's review of The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins by Gordon Hendricks, entitled "The Most Powerful Painter" appears in The New Republic for February 15, pp. 23-24.

Read about "Sculpture on Loan" concerning the program of the Newton Public Library in Massachusetts in American Libraries, March 1975, p. 148.

In the April issue of Harper's Magazine, Tom Wolfe writes about "The Painted Word: What you See is what they say," which is an excerpt from his new book by the same title, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June, $5.95. Described by his publisher as a "devastating and hilarious look at the world of Modern Art", The Painted Word charts the course of modern art from its beginnings in revolution to a revolution against literary content in art?to its present state, "in which it has become a parody of itself, obsessedly devoted to the pronouncements of certain guru-critics." The whole

April issue of Harper's is devoted to design and art, and should not be missed !

If you're interested in book publishing and copyright, be sure to read Victor S. Navasky's articles in the New York Times Book Review: on February 16, "In Cold Print: Dreaming of Joe Hill" and on March 16, "In Cold Print: Safe Publishing." Museum News for January/February 1975 is a must on any

art librarian's list. Besides covering articles on museum pub lishing, and Lois Swan Jones' article on the indexes mentioned in another part of this Newsletter, there is an excellent article by George H. Marcus on unusual format exhibition catalogs, a superb review of the Smithsonian magazine, an article by David Boorstin on "Art Book Publishing in the 70s."

An interview with Max Ernst appears in the March 24 issue of The New Yorker, pp. 34-36.

In the March issue of Museum News appears a tear-out

supplement, A Handbook of Museum-Related Resource Or

ganizations, by Avis Berman, compiler, which assembles

previously diffuse information on resources available to the museum community in the U.S. and Canada. The document is intended for use as a handy reference source, a guide for pre paring mailing and distribution lists, and as a method for dis

covering the many active services and programs that are ac cessible to the museum community. ARLIS/NA is among those

organizations listed. Write to AAM, 2233 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20007 for a copy, if you do not subscribe. $1.75 per copy. *Art in America for March on pp. 25-27 discusses IFAR, the International Foundation for Art Research, located at 654

Madison Avenue in New York City. A group of experts have banded together to help the public fight against forgeries, fakes and malattributions. What the problem is is that people hear what they don't want to hear, namely that they have purchased a fake. It cost at least $300 for an expert's consultation, but. . . .

In the March issue of L Oeil, there is an article by Xavier Gilles on "Mucha peintre et photographe", pp. 39-43. What is interesting is the in-depth study of Mucha as a

photographer who uses the photographs as a basis for his posters.

A discussion of "Art Criticism in France: Part II: The Art Journals" appears in Studio International for March/ April 1975, pp. 140-141.

CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION One of our traveling contacts has discovered that in art libraries throughout the country avantg?rd? materials or rare items in contemporary art have disappeared from many shelves. These include books or magazine titles on Duchamp, Dada, Dali, Surrealism, Fluxus, Source Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Art & Artists, Artscanada, and books by Dieter Rot. Also msising from collections are books by the Something Else Press, Black Sparrow, Hansjorg Mayer, and Fluxus. Watch them carefully-and take them off the open shelves.

Procedures for Salvage of Water-Damaged Library Materials, a 30-page document, prepared by Peter Waters, Restoration Officer in the Office of the Assistant Director for Preservation, is now available free upon request from the Library of Con gress. This document can assist those faced with the need to salvage library and archival materials affected by floods or water from fire-damage. The procedures suggested are designed to save a maximum amount of material with a minimum amount of restoration and replacement. Individuals and institutions known to have had actual experience in dealing with these problems are listed in the appendix. In addition, the Restora tion Office of Library of Congress stands ready to serve as an information center, and, if need be, as a coordinating agency for emergency salvage efforts. Write to LC, Preservation Office, Washington, DC 20540.

Chicago's Newberry Library is the site for the University of Illinois' July 7-August 1 course on Conservation of Research Library Materials. Paul Banks of Newberry will teach the one-credit ($88) course, which will reportedly emphasize "decision-making and not do-it-yourself treatment." For

more information call Richard Casper of the Univ. of Illinois at (312)996-8560.

The Library of Congress is offering free of charge a series of Preservation Leaflets which should be invaluable to anyone interested in libraries and the conservation of books and docu

ments. In response to the many requests received each year for information on these topics, the Office of the Assistant Direc tor for Preservation, Administrative Department, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540 has prepared these leaflets riot for the practicing conservator, but for the most part for the individual, the librarian, or the archivist with a need for basic information on the preservation of relatively small collections, but with limited background and experience in this field.

Available from the office mentioned above are the following Preservation Leaflets:

1) Selected References in the Literature of Conservation 2) Environmental Protection of Books and Related

Materials 3) Preserving Leather Bookbindings

Tentative titles involve topics such as sources of supplies, preserving library materials on exhibit, mounting and matting prints and drawings, as well as basic preservation for photogra phic materials. Hats off to the Library of Congress' Preserva tion Department for finally giving us some basic information.

ARTISTS' BOOKS

Six^ortraits by Gerard Malanga-William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Allen Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Anne Waldman, and

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John Wieners?six sensitive photographs by the poet with no text sized just right for the Nadada 4 4 in. format, edition of 600. $2.00 plus 25 cents postage and handling from Wittenborn & Company, 1018 Madison Avenue, New

York, NY 10028.

Carl Andre has written Yucatan (1975), a 22-page Xerox

printout signed but not numbered by the artist in an unlimited edition. Each page is 11x8 1/2 in. and was made on a color Xerox in New York. The printout makes the poetry of Carl Andre available in another form, each page reproducing in red/black type the original typed by the artist with red/black ribbon. The words of each page derive from chapter headings in Jo hn L. Stephens' incidents of Travel in the Yucatan, a 19th century account of archaeological adventure. Andre's line breaks, contractions, color blocks building his own maze for discovery. His liberties with language free as the poem progresses. Originals controlled by the artist. Price $10 a

page. Distributed by John Weber Gallery, New York City. Sol LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cubes (1974), an artist's

book in an unsigned first edition of 3,000. Each book is 8x8 in., and was printed on coated stock by Value-Plus Printers in New York. Photographs are by Akira Hagihara and type set by Jafa Typographers. If a complete open cube has 12 connectors or parts, an incomplete open cube may have three to 11. LeWitt has constructed all possible 107 variations of such cubes from 8 1/2 1/2 in. white bars. The serial Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes was first shown at the John Weber Gallery on a large table with

photographs and diagrams on walls. The artist's book repeats his two-dimensional documentation, illustrating each open cube full page photographed against a black ground with lined

diagram on facing page. An idea difficult to see in mass becomes easy to read in sequence and the handsome book its own sculpture. Price is $7.50 plus 26 cents postage from John Weber Gallery, 420 W. Broadway, New York City.

Adja Yunkers has produced a limited edition (50) volume called Blanco, distributed by Zabriskie Gallery, New York City.

Richard Tuttle has produced Interlude, a 12-page book of kinesthetic drawings (drawings can be removed). Order from Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York. (26 E. 78th St.)

In Artforum for April 1975 there is a bibliography of Sol LeWitt's books on page 44, as an appendix to an article about the artist by Lawrence Alloway. In the same issue, there is a list of books by Don Celender on page 80.

MUSEUM NEWS

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has closed on April 15 for about 10 months to complete extensive renovations and air conditioning for the 1976 Bicentennial. It is the first time the museum has ever closed for such a long period. .

Queens Museum has a new leader, Thomas P.F. Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who has agreed to serve as interim director of the crisis-ridden Queens Museum. The Museum of the City of New York has opened a rather

startling show, "How Grim was my City", an expos? of 19th century New York City and its grim way of life with child labor, disease, dirt and crime. Open until Labor Day. Jacob Riis featured with his photographs.

Kennedy Museum will not be located in Cambridge, MA near Harvard University, as previously announced. Due to complications, the Library Corporation is now looking for a new site, although the archives may remain near Harvard.

The Chrysler Museum of Art at Norfolk, VA has acquired a rare painting by the 17th century French artist, Georges de la Tour. This museum, founded in 1971, acquired a

painting depicting the Apostle Philip in half-length carrying a cross with head bowed. It was done for a church in Albi, France, around 1616-25.

Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, with the cooperation of the Cleveland Institute of Art and other Cleveland area arts organizations, are sponsoring a whole program of exhibitions, public lectures and related events rantftrinfl

on qp.nlptntE-arnJ history, to continue

throughout the year 1975.

A comprehensive and critical analysis of the nation's art museums will be undertaken by Karl E. Meyer under the

auspices of the Twentieth Century Fund. Mr. Meyer plans to scrutinize the performance of museums in serving the

public and to present recommendations for public policy on museums, now that so much public aid is being furnished to them. One aspect of interest is a comparative analysis to determine how well art museums perform when judged against universities and other endowed insitutions and the state-owned institutions in Europe.

ICOM (International Council of Museums) International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art met in Denmark and discussed several projects for 1974-77, among which is a Register of Modern Art Archives, a world-wide collection of data relating public reaction to selected works of art. Work is in progress through national initiatives in Italy, Czechoslovakia and Belgium. For further information, please contact Mr. Waldo Rasmussen, Secretary/Treasurer CIMAM, International Program, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53r d

Street, New York, NY 10019.

A four-day international conference on the problems of art museums will be held this fall in Britain under the sponsorship of the American Assembly and the British Museum. The Assem

bly, a forum for public affairs affiliated with Columbia Univer

sity, will send twenty American delegates to the Conference, to be held at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, from Oct. 17 to 20, to

join a larger number of delegates from Britain and the Conti nent to consider such topics as museum financing, the trustee

system, acquisitions, exhibitions and loan policies, the role of the contemporary art museum, and scholarship vs. public relations in the art museum. The Conference will be co-direc ted by Christopher White, director of studies at the Paul

Mellon Center for British Art in London, and Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum. Sir John Pope-Hennessey, director of the British Museum, will be Chairman.

A major painting by Stuart Davis, only accessible to men in the smoking lounge at the Radio City Music Hall in Rocke feller Center, executed as a 10 17 foot painting in 1932, has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection. Originally called

" Men without Women", it will

be designated only as "Mural" when it goes on view at the

Museum this year. Not to be undaunted, the women's parlor in the main

lounge of Radio City Music Hall is graced on all four walls

with a sprawling mural called "The History of Cosmetics,"

painted by Witold Gordon in 1932. Having been painted directly on the walls, it cannot be removed as can the Davis

mural, which was painted on canvas and adhered to the

wall with white lead.

WOMEN

Ms. magazine for May 1975 features an article about Frederike Recknagel, frontier photographer; a portfolio of photographs by Rosamond Wolff Purcell; and an excel

lent forum on "What is Female Imagery? "

with artists

and art historians in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York

participating.

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During 1975, the International Women's Year, a fine arts museum registrar is gathering information for an Index of publicly owned art works by women. The Index will include locations of all women's art works in public museums everywhere, regardless of the degree of fame or art historical prominence of the artists. When

published, the Index will be a basic "what is where? "

locator tool useful in the planning of exhibition, research, publication and the additional collection of art by women. Your help in gathering museum lists and other information on women artists will be very welcome. Write to S. DeRenne Coerr, Art by Women: an Index, 772 15th Ave., San Fran cisco, CA 94118.

Women printmakers who wish to be in a catalogue directory should write to Adele Aldridge, Graphics Coordinator, Women & Arts, 31 Chapel Lane, Riverside, CT 06878.

OFFERS

Eileen Cavanagh of Simmons College has produced an impor tant bibliography on the Sources of Information on Contem porary Public Art, including urban art, street art, and public sponsored outdoor works of art. Divided into organizations and programs; books; periodicals; newsletters and brochures; and non-print sources, this is an important bibliography, available for $2.00 from the author, 20 South Street, Brighton MA 02135. This appeals to those interested in murals in

public places. Victoria Keilus Dailey offers a selection of prints, drawings,

paintings, and illustrated books, 18th to 20th century, in her

catalogue 2, which can be obtained for $2.00 from her at P.O. Box 69812, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

On Site On Energy, which is On Site 5/6, is an annual publi cation published by SITE, Inc., 60 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012. Instead of a subscription basis, Site offers its readers an annual volume, each book numbered consecutively, and providing a list of publications available with each priced individually.

The above title covers resources, systems, mobility, habitat, synergy and iconology. Names such as Ant Farm, Denise Scott Brown, Jeffrey Cook, Allan Kaprow, Lewis Mumford, Nam June Paik, Richard Serra are but a few of the contributors to this volume. Order for $6.95. A must for all visual libraries, especially those dealing with architecture, planning, and video.

Also available are back issues of On Site 3: Everyone Wins

Competition for $3.00 and On Site 4: Not Seen and/or Less Seen of., for $3.00 as well.

Contemporary Crafts, Inc., a Los Angeles-based firm, pro duces books, catalogues, portfolios and prints about black artists. Included are limited edition books, as well as basic books on black artists. Catalogues include exhibits from 1968-1972 of black artists. S?des are also available on

Black Artists on Art, Black women artists, black graphic artists and sculptors, as well as craftspersons. Write to

Contemporary Crafts, Inc., 5271 West Pico Blvd., Los

Angeles, CA 90019.

The Art Boojc Company in London is offering for sale books of British Photography, 1840-1940. Their catalog/ bib?ography of these important photographic books is available upon request from The Art Book Company, 18 Endell Street, Covent Garden, London WC2. The Art Book Company also announces that Alexander Davis' Art Design Photo no. 2, 1973, is now available for $50, and all can be ordered from them at the above address.

The Business Committee for the Arts listed books and

pamphlets available on the art-business relationship in its September 1974 issue of Arts Business. Titles include The New Patrons of the Arts, The Arts?A challenge to business, a speech by Dr. Frank Stan ton, and others. The pamphlets are available free to individuals or to

usiness and arts groups.

/A The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo is offering / to ARLIS/NA members free of charge the following exhibition catalogs:

Drawings and Water color s from the Albright-Knox Art

Gallery. December 18,1967 -

January 31,1968.

English Paintings by Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney and Lawrence. 1945.

John Singer Sargent. March 7-April 2,1972.

Letters from 31 Artists. Gallery Notes, XXXI, No. 2 and XXXII, No. 2, Spring, 1970.

Naum Gabo. March 2 - April 14, 1968.

Six Painters- Avedisian, Bannard, Christensen, Davis,

Poons, Young. October 5 - November 14,1971.

Winslow Homer: A Selection of Watercolors, Drawings and Prints from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. April 7

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May 7,1972. Write to Annette Masling, Librarian, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 14222.

NOW ART

Fence Art, including photographs of children's paintings found on the temporary walls and fences surrounding local construction sites, opened at the Museum of the City of New York.

Garbo & Dietrich: The Reified Woman in Film, another New York City art exhibition, was a multimedia show of photographs, s?des, sketches, videotapes and recordings, a real audiovisual turn-on.

Cartoon as an art form will be featured in the Art Now '75 exhibition at the J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, from April 22 through June 1. The cartoon

will be explored as an indigenous American art form, with the origins of the cartoon in the works of Benjamin Frank?n and Paul Revere, followed by its progress through contem porary uses in advertising and education. Areas to be covered include the comic strip, animation panel, and political car toons, advertising, education, and fine art. Demonstrations and panel discussions by prominent working cartoonists are planned.

ART THEFTS & RECOVERIES The 28 works of art stolen from the Modern Art Gallery in Milano on February 17 were recovered, and none had been damaged.

A portrait of Elizabeth van Rijn by Rembrandt was stolen from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in mid April.

Italy has asked the return of a marble busfpf Pope Urban VIII, attributed to the celebrated baroque architect and sculp tor Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, now on display at the National Gallery of Ottawa.

Authorities have reason to be?eve that the bust had been smuggled out of Italy during the sixties in violation of laws protecting the nation's cultural heritage.

The many ?braries that serve as museums as well as book warehouses are becoming just as susceptible to thefts as museums. The Cleveland Pub?c Library was the latest to get hit by burglars, who made off with five 18th century chess sets valued at $18,000.

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INTERESTING BOOKS

Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California before 1930 will be available in May 1975. It has been edited by Nancy Moure, Assistant Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and published by Mrs. Moure under her own imprint, Dustin Publications, 935 West Mountain Street, Glendale, CA 91202. National distribution is being handled by Laurence McGilvery, P.O. Box 852, La Jolia, CA 92038.

This is the third of Mrs. Moure's excellent publications on Southern California art. About 3000 artists and organiza tions are covered, and there is little duplication with other

biographical dictionaries. Entries for the more active artists contain a short biographical sketch followed by a bibliography annotated in a style similar to that of The New York Times Index, and a list of reproductions of works.

Mrs. Moure's work derives its special strength from her

thorough examination of previously unresearched materials and archives, the most important of which exist only in Southern California. Changing patterns of collecting and the activity connected with the Bicentennial are creating entirely new attitudes toward the work of previously ne

glected artists from our near past. The publication of regional reference works of the high quality of these of Mrs. Moure's is an integral part of this re-examination and re-evaluation.

The dictionary is 8 1/2 11 inches in size and will have over 300 pages plus a section of illustrations. It will be pub lished in an edition of 500 copies at $30.00 in paper and about $40.00 in library binding. Mrs. Moure's two earlier

publications also now available in new editions are: California Water Color Society: Prize Winners 1931-1954; Index to Exhibitions 1921-1954 (92pp., kicL 26 ills., paper, $7.00 ); and Artists' Clubs and Exhibitions in Los Angeles before 1930 (162 pp., paper, $8.00).

Top Symbols and Trademarks of the World, published by the Deco Press in Milano in 1973, edited by Franco Maria Ricci and Corinna Ferrari, covers symbols of 30 countries of the world, involves four years of research, which are now enclosed in 7 volumes, including 30,000 pages, 50,000 marks, 1200 designers. The volume is distributed by Marquis Who's

Who in Chicago for $135 hardbound with an annual supple ment available for $25. * ArtIKunst 2. International Bibliography of Art Books 1073, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basle, is available for 3 Swiss francs. Headings are General Aesthetics, Art Epochs, Art Forms & Techniques, Popular Arts, Arts & Crafts, Publications about Individual Artists and their Work, Catalogues & Guides. There is a brief description of each publication with English, German or French captions, together with details of size, illustration and price. 2500 titles in 2 editions are included with an index of authors, editors and artists, which greatly facilitates finding books on specific artists or subjects. Maestri della Pittura Veronese, ed. by Pierpaolo Brugnolo

With an introduction by Lionello Puppi, is one of those pub lications you will never know about since it is published by a bank in Italy, a gift to special customers and citizens of the community, but this one, published by the Banca Mutual Popolare di Verona, links the culture and development of Verona to its artists.

As Sig. Puppi points out in his introduction, the glory of Verona is sung by its artists throughout the centuries, and he has the good fortune to have his article illustrated with color plates, some of which registration is completely off, or at least a poor facsimile of the true colors. The rest of

the illustrations in the book are poor black and white, veering to gray and white?at times?ranging from very early frescoes to Saverio della Rosa, who died in 1821.

Each author on each artist has included certain works, attributed works, works destroyed or dispersed, and good bibliographies. Indexes include one of names, subjects and illustrations, as well as photographic references.

If your collection has a good Italian art foundation, it would be suggested to contact the Bank in Verona for further information.

PHOTOGRAPHY "A Different Kind of Art", a discussion by John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art about contemporary photogra phy, appears in the New York Times Magazine, April 13, 1975, p. 16 plus.

In the May issue of Popular Photography, Norman Roth schild in his "Offbeat" column writes on "Color Print Per

manence and Archival Techniques." A book entitled Preservation of Photographic Materials

is being offered for sale by East Street Gallery, Grinell, Iowa. The book, which the authors call "the most complete on the

subject," replaces the booklet on preservation published by the gallery in 1969.

Included in the new book are extensive sections on parti cular films and photographic papers, a lengthy bibliography of source references and a comparison of different fixer

clearing agents.

Price is $2.00 per copy from East Street Gallery, 723 State Street, Box 68, Grinnell, Iowa 50112.

Learn to See, a newly published book available at cost from Polaroid Corporation, describes and illustrates 101

projects for using photography in the classroom. Intended as a sourcebook of ideas to assist teachers in using photo graphy in preparing individualized teaching materials and in formulating projects using photography as a tool for

teaching language skills, social studies, art, reading and other subjects. Ages range from pre-school to the elderly.

Compiled and edited by Susan Meiselas, a New York freelance photographer and teacher and artist-in-residence for the Center for Understanding Media, the 142-page softbound book, with color and black and white illus trations, is available at $3.00 from Polaroid Corp., 750 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139.

"The Art History of Photography" a symposium designed to present recent investigations of the history of photography by art historians, held February 20-22 at the International Museum qf Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, attracted over 250 people. Papers covered work of Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Henri Le Secq, Lissitzky and Rodchenko, William Bradford, Thomas Anna, as well as a paper on the impact of the photographic imagery and technology on

graphic arts in the 19th century. The proceedings of the Conference are to be published, either as a special issue of Image, the Eastman House's quarterly, or as a separate

volume, within the next year. Abstracts of the papers presented at the Conference are available for $1 per set from Mrs. Wainwright, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 900 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607.

Cibachrome Prints from Slides are discussed in Modern

Photography, May 1975, as well as in Popular Photography for May. The new items discuss an easy way to make superb color prints from transparencies in 12 minutes. The only drawback is that the Cibachrome kits will be available only on the West Coast from April 13 on.

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The photographic career of Gis?le Freund is outlined in the March issue of Ms. magazine. As a freelance photographer and one of the original staff of Magnum, she became highly skilled in candid portraiture. The proceedings of a 1972 history symposium sponsored

by the Photographic Historical Society of New York have been published in the form of a booklet entitled Photographic '72. Included are articles on photographic books in America, daguerreotype restoration, a history of color photography and several articles on collecting photographic materials. Available for $2.50 from Mrs. Shirley Spring, 202 Herrick St., Teaneck, NJ 07666.

ARCHITECTURE NEWS After a year long battle with the Harris County Commissioners, interested citizens succeeded in saving two significant examples of 19th century Houston architecture. The Pillot Building and the Sweeney Building will now be incorporated into a

design for the new Harris County Administration Building. The two buildings will be restored and used for offices, and the new building will be constructed behind them with a

courtyard between the old and new buildings. Church Building in Boston, 1720-1970 by Douglass Shand

Tucci, with an introduction to the Work of Ralph Adams Cram and the Boston Gothicists, has been issued by the Trustees of the Dorchester Savings Bank in observance of the Bicen tennial. The book can be purchased from the Bank at 510 Boylston Street, Boston, MA for $7.50.

A taped interview with architect Minoru Yamasaki, who speaks at length about the design evolution of his World Trade Center in New York, including a show of 160 slides illustrating his remarks is available from Meadow Brook

Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48063.

"Architectural Studies and Projects" is the name of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art through May 15, which includes drawings of purely visionary architecture, schemes that have no connection with reality. Visionary

architects include Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Raimund Abraham, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, Rem Koolhaas, as well as New York architects such as Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier and John Hedjuk. EXHIBITION CATALOGS The 121 Monets on exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago are beautifully documented in the catalog, priced at $7.50, with an essay by Grace Seiberling on Monet's development and interview with Andr? Masson. Art Institute, through 11

May.

Three Centuries of French Posters, 200 works tracing the history of the French poster from the 18th to the 20th centuries is running through April 29 at the New School Art Center in New York City. m French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution, a joint effort of the Detroit Institute of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Louvre opened in Detroit and will then go to New York on June 13. The catalog, running to 712 pages, is an intellectual event of great importance, sells for $14.95 ($16 with postage from Detroit).

The Max Ernst retrospective in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum is excellently documented in the catalog which costs $14.75 ($15.25 by mail).

The Museum of American Folk Art in New York City showing "Calligraphy: Why not Learn to Write" in March

is selling the catalog for that show for $2.50 by mail.

Word Works Two, an exhibition of well-known artists who use words as their subject matter, is at San Jose State Univer sity from April 14 through May 16. A catalog is available, an invitation catalogue raisonn? of many contemporary artists

who use words as their form and structure. Agenes Denes, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Wiener and Ian Wilson are among the sixty internationally known artists included in the completed catalog.

Available from the Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192 prepaid only for $3.50. The Editor would like to thank the art critics of the New York Times for allowing its readers to note the publication of an exhibition catalog reviewed by the critics, as well as the price by mail.

EXHIBITION CATALOGS ON MICROFICHE

Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. really concentrates on modern art in its catalogs. Its North American distributor is Somerset House, 417 Maitland Avenue, Teaneck, NJ 07666, Manager Peter Kurz, Tel. (201) 833-1795.

List 2 is devoted to the 525 out-of-print catalogues of exhibitions organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and List 3 is another general list which includes the early Venice Biennale exhibition catalogues. Two-thirds of the 147 catalogues in the first list have been filmed, but it

will take a little time to finish off corrections and have the catalogue cards printed. Remember that Chadwyck

Healey includes catalogue cards with their microfiche.

RUSSIAN WASTE-PAPER COLLECTION CAMPAIGN For the want of waste-paper, the government in Moscow is offering book premiums for old paper, unexpectedly exposing a Muscovite propensity for dumping literary classics in exchange for mysteries, romances and fairy tales. So Dickens, Swift, Tolstoy and Sholokhov are being dumped for poorly produced new editions of Conan Doyle, Simenon, Dumas, and Hans Christian Andersen.

As reported in the Communist youth press, a group of Polish education books was discarded, while a man was upset because he was being discouraged from dumping a gold embossed set of pre-revolutionary Russian encyclopedias "those very books for which libraries and book lovers are weeping."

The campaign was initiated to ease the national paper shortage by giving book premiums to people who bring in heaps of old paper. For each 44 pounds of paper the donor gets a coupon good for one copy of a book from a list pre pared specially for campaign participants.

One consoling note was a comment from another manager of the campaign, who noted that "the possessors of the biggest amount of old papers-journalists, art critics, bibliographers still have not joined" the paper-collection campaign. NEW PERIODICALS

Intermedia, a new publication to link the new art movement with alternative movements such as work/living/education movement, as well as alternative communications network.

Intermedia is a journal by and for artists, a forum for artists' concerns and needs. Articles in Volume 1, Number 1 range from Photography in Los Angeles to censored books. In addition, there is a section called "Resources" which is the yellow-pages to art resources which includes small presses, art groups and publications, performing arts, art service organizations, etc. Subscription is $4.00 per year. Sample copy is $1.00 from The Century City Educational Arts Project, 10508 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064.

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U is the publication of the newly-founded International Arts Centre, founded in November 1974. The principal aim of the Centre is to present British art to the world, which, it is

felt, is not adequately represented by the "established gallery scene". The Centre will function as a showroom for contem porary British art which can be conveniently visited by tourists, collectors, and entrepreneurs of the arts, during their visit to Great Britain. The Centre will present exhibitions, performances and includes a slide bank. Write to International Arts Centre, 107-111 Newington Butts, London SEI.

Art Spectrum is a new publication which describes itself as "a monthly art journal, appearing eight times a year." It intends to give advance information on important exhibitions in all partsof the world, as well as reviews of books and exhi

bitions, and profiles of contemporary artists illustrated in color and black and white. A subscription for one year costs $ 15, witl the first issue out in January 1975. Available c/o The Swiss Credit Bank, Paradeplatz, Zurich.

Book Arts, a quarterly journal on the art of the book, has been launched by the Center for Book Arts, a not-for-profit

organization started in 1974 to increase public awareness

of the book as an object and to advance the art of the book. The first issue, out in April, will include interviews with

book artists Barton Benes and Gerald Jackson, articles on

microfilm recording of book art, wood engravings and other information about exhibits, research, education and

reprints from hard-to-find old magazines. Since the first printing is only 1000, it is suggested that

you become a member of the Center which entitles you to

receive copies of the quarterly. Individuals: $5.00. Institu

tions, $25.00. Write to Center for Book Arts, 15 Bleeker

St., New York 10012. Say you saw it in the Newsletter.

Sound Image, a magazine based in Amherst, Mass., has

announced the publication of its first issue. This issue and future issues will be based on the concept of combining a

phonograph record with photographs that have been sequenced to accompany the recording.

The first issue combines the music of an Aeolian harp, a

composition by Daniel Pinkham, the radio signal of a Pulsar and other music on the full length LP with reproduction of photographs by Minor White, Andre Kert?sz, Lotte Jacobi, Charles Harbutt, Ralph Gibson and others.

Future issues will deal with Greece and the music of the Greek people, with photographs by Constan tine Manos; and the Arctic, with marine life and environmental sounds recorded by Thomas Poulter and Arctic landscapes photo graphed by Warren Krupshaw.

Available by subscription only for $20 per year (2 issues) with the first issue costing $12. Write to Sound Image, Inc., Box 472, Amherst, MA 01002.

The Fox, a new periodical with Volume 1, Number 1 issued

this month, deals with the revaluation of art-practice with themes such as art and politics, art and power, art and economics, art history, the priority of language. First issue costs $2.00 from P.O. Box 728, Canal St.Station, New York, NY 10013.

The Old-House Journal deals with renovation and main

tenance ideas for the antique house. Items covered are

government grants for historic preservation,tips about con

crete, cement. A monthly, the Journal includes books about

Regional Architecture with reviews. Indexing is being pro vided by the staff of the Journal. Subscription is $12 per year, or $34 for three years. Write to The Old-House

Journal, Dept. 74, 199 Berkeley Pl., Brooklyn, NY 11217.

ARLIS/UK The March issue of the ARLIS/ UK Newsletter has as its theme the problem of subject specialization and the art librarian. An article by James Thompson, entitled "The argument against subject specialisation; or, Even a good idea can fail" is countered by Trevor Fawcett's excellent "1he compleat art librarian; or, what it takes." We con tinue to suggest that our readers subscribe. Price is ?4.00 surface or ?6.00 air mail. Write to Philip Pacey, The

Library, Preston Polytechnic, Corporation Street, Preston PR1 2TQ, Lancashire, England.

CANADA : MEETINGS AND MATERIALS

The CASLIS Art Libraries Committee will meet on 14 June with a Round Table Discussion on Canadian Art Exhibition Catalogs. The Conference will take place in Toronto with exhibitions and gallery shows all slated to be visited by Canadian art librarians. The visits will take place on Monday, 16 June. For more information, write to Sylvia Prii, Toronto

Public Libraries, Forest Hill Branch, 700 Eglinton Ave., W., Toronto, Ont., Canada M5N 1B9.

Bernard Amtmann has just published Volume V of Canadian Art Auction Record, a comprehensive listing of Canadian art works sold at auction sales in Canada in 1973, with prices obtained, compiled by H.C. Campbell, Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Libraries. Volume 5 is $9.00 as are the previous volumes, Volume III (1971) and Volume IV (1972). Order from Bernard

Amtmann, Inc., 1529 Sherbrooke Street W, Montreal, Canada H3G 1L7.

JOHN ALAN WALKER

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