The Art World: A Seventy-Five-Year Treasury of ARTnews

New York: ARTnews Books: Distributed by Rizzoli International Publications, 1977. Cloth, xix, 459 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Packed with great information and profusely illustrated, this book consists of articles reprinted from ARTnews in chronological order from its origins as Hyde's Weekly Art News in 1902. CONTENTS: Art and government; Soviets sieze all church art works; Society is formed to combat cubism; Art surgery saves "The Last Supper"; Modern art is hit by German reaction; White House furniture; Mona Lisa passes x-ray test; Hahn-Duveen trial ends in disagreement; Women distract at Villa Medici; Joan Miro; The Rivera case; Hopper exhibition clarifies a phase of American art; Gertrude Stein reveals reactions to home country; The classic nude: 1460-1905; U.S. art at the fair: democratic selection & standardized result; Collecting from a critical viewpoint; The Negro artist comes of age; The liberating quality of avant-garde art; Georgia O'Keeffe; The pasted paper revolution; What is pop art?; Artists in the great society?; Art as anti-environment; Harlem out of mind; Why have there been no great women artists?; Nevelson on Nevelson; It's a fine photograph, but is it a work of art?. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Glaser, Milton (Design by). 4to. Collectible.