14 JANUARY 1955, page 26

Klee

The Mind and Work of Paul Klee. By Werner Haftmann. (Faber and Faber, £1 10s.) IT is fourteen years since Klee died. Since then the Kunsthistorisch bulldozer has set itself with......

Gods And Gryphons

The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient. By Henri Frankfurt. (Penguin Books, 42s.) The Art of India Through the Ages. By Stella Kramrisch. (Phaidon Press, 37s. 6d.) IF......

Private View. By Jocelyn Brooke. (james Barrie, 10s. 6d.)...

book consists of four portraits, or essays, in what the blurb calls 'managed autobiography.' There is a first-person narrator wilt) is a little boy in the first and last ones......