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Article: World of paperbacks.
- Article from:
- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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The U.S. publisher, HARRY N. ABRAMS has recently brought out two new additions to their highly praised Masters of Art series, titles first published in 1981: Jan Vermeer by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jnr. and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by Douglas Cooper. Each volume is priced at [pounds sterling]13.95 and each is filled with high quality illustrations: 97 in the case of Vermeer and 102 in Toulouse-Lautrec and many are in colour. The text, in addition to discussing the artists' styles and approaches to art, also include background material to their social and historic roots. The continuing republication of this series, so useful as an introduction, is to be welcomed.
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