Image No. 3: Winter 1949-so. Edited by Robert Harling. (Art
and Technics. is.) THIS excellent "quarterly of the visual arts" continues bravely on its course, demonstrating an agreeable directness of approach and a refreshing renunciation of preciosity. The editorial mind is catholic in taste, but knows quite definitely what it likes, and uses a loving care and all the resources of print and paper to present its discoveries to a public (necessarily select, but loyal) that has learned to appreciate them. The venture shows public spirit, for a publication of this quality can hardly yield a profit at five shillings a copy : an editorial note in this issue declares that, "on the basis of page for page, thousand for thousand, Image is probably the most expensive magazine in England to produce," but adds: "We don't need a subsidy : we'll carry our losses with a stiff upper lip." The most interesting article in this issue is that by Mr. Basil Taylor on "The Graphic Work of George Stubbs " ; it augurs well for his forthcoming book on Stubbs. Another stimulating article is that by Mr. Mitchell A. Wilder on the "Santos," the carved devotional figures of New Mexico. Mr. Thomas Ralston appraises the clean lines of Ethelbert White's wood-engravings, and Mr. Michael Middleton presents some clever drawings by Leonard Rosoman, whose decorative sense appears to need colour for its proper fulfilment. The " postscript " enclosed with each copy now runs to eight pages, and contains some letters which show that Image is attracting the attention of artists and typographers, as it deserves.
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