Books Received

Aesthetics The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics ofPknty David Robbins. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1990. 256 pp., iIlus. Trade, $50.00. ISBN: 0-262-18139-8. Art Criticism/History The Desert is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art Janice Monk and Vera Norwood. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., 1987. 288 pp., iIlus. Trade, $28.00. ISBN: 03688-4. Dynamic and Kinetic Form in Design S. O. Khan-Magomedov, V. F. Koleychuk, A. N. Lavrent'ev and I. V. Racheyeva. VNllTE, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1989.80 pp., Paper, 3 Rubles, 85 kopecks. Fake? The Art ofDeception MarkJones, ed. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 1990.312 pp., iIlus. Trade, $49.95. ISBN: 0-520-07086-0. The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions ofPlanting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Qmtury Central Italy Claudia Lazzaro. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., 1990.334 pp., iIlus. Trade, $55.00. ISBN: 0-300-04765-7. The Letters and Diaries ofOskar Schlemmer Tut Schlemmer, ed. Northwestern Univ. Press, Evanston,lL, U.S.A., 1990.426 pp. Paper, $17.95. ISBN: 0-8101-{)903-4. Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on StiU-LifePainting Norman Bryson. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge , MA, U.S.A., 1990. 192 pp., iIlus. Trade, $25.00. ISBN: 0-674-53905-2. BOOKS RECEIVED Passion for Reason and Reasonfor Passion : Seventeenth-Qmtury Art and Theory in Fmnce, 1648-1683 Martin Weyl. Peter Lang Publishing, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1989. 320pp., Trade, $50.50. ISBN: 0-8204-2981-2. PieterSaenredam: The Painter and His Time MartenJan Bok and Gary Schwartz. Abbeyville Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1990. 224 pp., iIlus. Trade, $85. ISBN: 1-55859-{)73-{). VISion and Unity: Stryeminski (18931952 ) and 9 Contempomry Polish Artisu, 18June-4 Sept. 1989, exh. cat. JaromirJedlinski, ed. Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, 1990. 307 pp., iIlus. Paper. Cinema Japanese Cinema: An Introduction D. Richie. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK, 1990. 120 pp., iIlus. Trade, £6.95. ISBN: 0-19-584950-7. Computer Graphics The Language ofComputer Graphics. A Dictionary ofTermsand Concepu John Vince. Architecture Design and Technology Press, London, U.K., 1990. 174 pp., iIIus. Trade, £19.95. ISBN: 1-85454-147-1. General Mimesis as Make-Believe Kendall L. Walton. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1990. Mathematics Penser les Mathhnatiques R. Apery, M. Caveing,J. P. Descles.]. Dieudonne , R. Fraisse, F. de Gandt, P. Gochet, J.M. Levy-Lebond, M.,Loi, B. Mandelbrot, J. c. Pont, R. Thorn. Editions du Seuil, Paris, France, 1982. 273 pp., iIlus. Paper. ISBN: 2-{)2-{)06061-2. AUDIOTAPES RECEIVED Living in Dreamtime, #4: An Electronic Symphony Walter Wright. Mirage Electronics, 911 Main Street, U.S.A., 1990. Dolby C Tape. Music Electronic Technology and the Art of Music, All-Union Scientific Conference, 26-28 March 1990, AbstracU Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., 1990.84 pp. The Listening Composer George Perle. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., 1990. 202 pp., iIlus. Trade, $18.95. ISBN: 0-520-06991-9. Sound Artisu Dan Lander and Micah Lexier, eds. Art Metropole, 788 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V IN6, Canada, 1990. 385 pp., iIlus. Paper. ISBN: 0-920956-23-8. 2Oth-Qmtury Microtonal Notation Gardner Read. Greenwood Press, New York, NY,U.S.A., 1990. 208 pp., iIlus. Trade, $39.95. ISBN: 0-313-27398-7. Physics Landau: The Physicist and the Man I. M. Khalatnikov, ed. Pergamon Press, Oxford , U.K., 1989.332 pp., iIlus. Trade, £55. ISBN: 0-08-{)36383-{). Lattice Gas Methodsfor Partial Differential Equations, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences ofComplexity Gary D. Doolen, ed. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, U.S.A., 1990.576 pp., iIlus. Trade, $47.50. ISBN: 0-201-15679-2. 1989 Lectures in Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences ofComplexity EricaJen, ed. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, U.S.A., 1990.640 pp., iIlus. Trade, $48.50. ISBN: 0-201-50936-9. Current Li terature 99 SYMMETRY AND TESSELATIONS M. Emmer, producer. International Tele-film, 47 Densley Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6M 5A8, Canada. No. Ve2273...