PERSIAN PAINTING: Five Royal Safavld
Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century,
by Stuart Cary Welch. Brazlller, $17.50
The sixteenth century was the pinna·
cle of classical painting in Iran . Art flour·
ished under the patronage of the great
Safavid rulers , and the five manuscripts
in this volume-painted between 1522
and 1565 expressly for the Shahs–
represent the finest works in the dazzling
style of the miniature . The author traces
the historical development of the Safavid
Rule and has provided us with commen·
taries on each painting which both clarify
the narrative and place them in the larger
context of Iranian painting .
THE SCULPTURE AND SCULPTORS OF
THE GREEKS, Fourth Edition, revised
and enlarged, by Gisela M.A. Richter.
Yale University Press, $40.00
In this completely new edition of an
indispensable classic text, references
and illustrations have been thoroughly
revised , added to, and brought up to
date . Many photographs have been
added and newer photos substituted for
old ones; the illustrations (over 800) in·
clude most major works of Greek sculp·
ture and can serve as a pictorial atlas.
MAUPASSANT, by Michael Lerner.
George Braziller, $12.50
This new biographical study of Guy
de Maupassant casts a fresh light upon
an era of social and literary upheaval ,
while evaluating modern evidence con·
cerning the development of Maupas·
sant's career-from his youth , as a pupil
of Flaubert's, to his becoming one of
France 's most famed writers.
ORWELL AND THE LEFT, by Alex
Zwerdling . Yale University Press,
$11.50
Alex Zwerdling uses Orwell's deep
commitment to a political philosophy as a
starting point in assessing Orwell's life
and career. He shows that Orwell in his
mature work tried to reform the Left from
within and to find a socialist faith rooted
in his own experience and observation
rather than in ideology.
PITY THE MONSTERS: The Political
Vision of Robert Lowell, by Alan Wil–
liamson. Yale University Press, $11 .50
While essentially a thematic study, this
book can also be read as a commentary
or guide to much of Robert Lowell's poet·
ry. Williamson works close to the text and
offers detailed readings of the major
poems.
LAUREL AND HARDY, Text by John
McCabe, Compiled by AI Kilgore, Film–
ography by Richard W. Bann. Dutton,
$25.00
The most comprehensive book yet
published on the greatest comedy team
in film history. 1460 photos.
THE MOVIES ON YOUR MIND, by
Harvey Greenberg, M.D. Saturday Re–
view Press, $10.95
This book is the outgrowth of a
psychoanalyst's life·long love affair with
the movies. Greenberg touches on more
than one hundred movies, studying
several in detail, attempting to show the
deeper conflicts and passions which
make movies faSCinating . Greenberg
offers inSights of a high order into film·
making and directing.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LEON
TROTSKY, by Victor Serge and Natalia
Sedova Trotsky, translated by Arnold
Pomerans. Basic Books, $10.95
Trotsky has been fixed in the contem·
porary imagination as the very model of
the revolutionary hero and martyr. This
classic portrait of him was written by his
widow and a trusted friend and confidant,
two people who knew this difficult and
enigmatic figure best, who understood
his thoughts and feelings , and witnessed
at first hand the events of his life.
THE PREMISES FOR PROPAGANDA:
The United States Information Agen–
cy's Operating Assumptions In the
Cold War, by Leo Bogart, abridged from
the original five volume story by Agnes
Bogart. Free Press, $12.95
Leo Bogart, an internationally known
specialist in public opinion and mass
communication , sheds new light on the
workings of an American propaganda
institution and the issues involved in
propaganda: the problems of ends and
means, and the theory of mass persua·
sion.
KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS, by Rober–
to Mangabeira Unger. Free Press,
$12.95
Know/edge and Politics
is an attack on
a ruling tradition of thought about man and
society. The psychological and political
assumptions of classical liberal thought
have dominated Western culture since
the seventeenth century. In the past
these beliefs have received only piece–
meal consideration . Now, the author, a
teacher at Harvard Law School , critically
examines these liberal premises and clas·
sicalliberal thought as a whole.
A MOST UNSETTLING PERSON, by
Paddy Kitchen. Saturday Review Press,
$10.95
The life and ideas of Patrick Geddes
the Victorian polymath , city planner, and
a true English eccentric . "Kitchen 's book
is more than a biography of a founding
father of sociology and town planning . It
is about the Victorian thirst for knowledge
and the excellent belief that the true ama–
teur of many subjects was better than the
specialist of one, and that to learn was to
improve ." " A romantic biography full of
fascination ."
-Times
of London .
