Paintings In
p. 101 · Read in the full issue
Paperback
Picasso’s paintings, which out raged the bourgeois and de lighted bohemians in the days when the terms “bourgeois” and “bohemian” could be used with a straight face, seem a trifle tame in these happening times.
The thought is prompted by The Eye of Picasso, one of 28 paperbacks in Fontana’s Unesco art book series. The books are superb, each one containing some 30-odd colour plates of the finest clarity and detail and an introductory appreciation of the works reproduced.
Islanders, old hands and others, will be pleased to know that New Guinea art is covered in the series, under the title Oceanic Art.
Among other titles: Japanese Paintings, Aboriginal Paintings, Goya, Vermeer, Renoir and T oulouse-Lautrec.
The series, as its title suggests, has been produced in co-opera tion with the United Nations, and each book sells for 90 cents.