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Featured are Manet's utopia, and Holljwood and mass media--duped lis thought collaboration witlk 6 in the 1970s tlvouglk Dada and and Iris art. Surrealism to tlle end of the 20" cenw. Blaise Cendrars World War I1 slmped Westermann as an artist, suspicious and Sonia Delaunay, Andre Masson and Robert Desnos, of the "nodlife tlut American lud defended. Here was Andr6 Breton and George Bataille are all treated in depth. a cigar-chomping clmacter who lmd an uncanny sense of With over 30 black and wldte illustrations and 16 pages in l~umor,a belief in making things well, faith in the beauty fidl color, this volume traces how the movement evolved in and integrity of materials, especially wood, and then he the second Idof the 20' centuxy with the works of Andr6 tested himself by going to tlre Korean War. The rest is Du Boucl~etand Pierre Tal Coat; Bernard N&l, Olivier history, for Iris art was a way of unleaslung the pressure of Debri and Bertrand Dorny. Special attention is paid to tl~e those memories from both wars. He became a soul catcher. publisl~erswho pioneered the genre. With more than 200 illustrations in 111 color on 80 Recommended for all serious book collections. Tlris pages, 40 in duotone, the volume evaluates Westermann in volume is a chapter in the listory of the book, the livre the context of 20"-century art, especially due to Robert d 'artiste.Only 500 copies available outside the UK. Storr's incisive essay; Lye Warren, looking at Westermann's Chicago years in the 1950s. Dennis A 7 Reece Mews: Frmcis Bacon's Studio with foreword by a longtime friend, surveys the artist's entire oeuvre; and John Edwards an8 phobgraplas by Perry Ogden (New York, Michael Rooks, who examines his most elaborate TlmesL Hudsoq 2001, $24.95 hardcover) ents ihe achievement, the lkouse and studio in Comectimt that the modest and unprekntious building which was the principal artist designed and built by hand from 1969 to 1981, home and shldio of Francis Bacon for the last 30 years of Ms becomes a revelation not only to those who knew his work, life. When he died in 1992, the studio was left intact. Prior but to many who never knew what an uncanny genius he to the removal of tl~estudio to the Hugh was. Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin in 1998, total access was With an illustrated chronology that not only documents granted to award-winning phootogmpher Pen); Ogden in the events in Westennann's life but also those events which order to produce this riveting record of tlie house and its impinged on the artist's life, a comprehensivebibliography contents. and a complete exlibition history, tllis is the book we all Now almost iconic in its record, the studio was left lmve been waiting for. unchecked with slashed, discarded canvases scatteredacross the floor, tl~ebruslies, rags and tins encrusted with pain^ the Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field doors and walls used as impromptu palettes; the piles of Collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art, edited by photographs of friends and models; the cnunpled and torn Lydia L. Wyckoff (Tulsa, Pldbrook MWM of Art, 200 1, pages of magazines and books that served asvisual stimulus $75 Imdcover, $39.95 paper) documents one of tl~emost for his work, notes, sketc11es and ideas jotted down and then stunning exlibitions I have ever seen. This collection of tlvown aside and even the last unfinished painting on the Clark Field is a stunning contribution to the understanding easel. of Native American cultures, a dedicated passion of one man Tlis book bas 60 color photos and no text. The studio to create an exhaustive collection, and the tkst time the speaks for itself. And now you can see it in Dublin. And Plrilbrook Museum, of Art lw pubtished information on the there is a film about the studio as well. collection in its entirety. From a hobby, Clark Field's collecting of Native American baskets turned into an A Poke in the I, a collection of concrete poems, selected obsession and tl6s collection of well over 1000 baskets by Paul A. Janeczko and illustrated by Cluis Raschlka sl~owshow a culture can be flexible and adaptable, and how (Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Presss, 2001, $15.99 all culhues use baskets to continue traditions and values. hardback) is a wl~msical,remarkable collection of works With the knowledge of transforming twigs, grasses, roots, with crisp black words on clean backgrounds serving as ferns, and bark into works of art tlmt are unsurpassed for concepts and physical objects by such poets as Allen Jones, beauty and teclmological skill, Clark lmadded so much to Jolm Hollander, Enunett Williams, Arm Saroyan, Mary the understanding of both weavers and their cultures from Ellen Solt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, the author and tlle eight separate cultural areas: the Southwest, Caliirnia, the illustrator, Richard Meltzer, Ronald Jolmn, Robert Intermontane West, the Northwest Coast, Arctic and Froman and many more. Although tl* is a collection for Subarctic, Prairie and Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, and young people, it is definitely a visual treat as well. The the Soutl~east.At the end of each clmpter is a map with a illustrations are outstanding, especially since the cover description of the area and its indigenous cullnres, historical sl~owsa man with an umbrella poking the 'T of tl~etitle. information (re: basketry and teclmolog).), and a discussion It's good to start young people on a road toward concrete of basket weavers (including some interviews with basket and visual poetry and tlis is a gem! weavers and their families). The last basket Mr. Field bought cost $1,000,000. Now tlut is an obsession! Experimental Sound and Radio, edited by Allen S. Weiss, The catalog l~elpsto understand the diversity and as a special issue of TDIVThe Dronta Review, explores the resiliency of Native American peoples and how their myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of basketry traditions respond to social, cultural, and radiophony and sound art.