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Portraits Of The Artist

SINCE the apologetic strain in literattire entered a phase of dominance about a century and a half ago, the need to explain why art, against all the appearances, is a worthy, or......

Portrait Of Architecture

Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Cen- turies. By Henry-Russell Hitchcock. (The Pelican History of Art: Penguin Books, 70s.) A FIRST reading of this phenomenal book is......