Horizon, Vol. Xiii No. 4, Autumn 1971

£25.00

Contents:

Thomas Meehan "If Someone Says His Work Is Art, It's Art" 
John Russell Francis Bacon: A Retrospective And A Preview 
Wilfrid Sheed  The Thurber Carnival 
Morris Bishop Perfide Manon And Abbé Prévost 
W. H. Auden An Encounter 
J. H. Plumb “The Edwardians With A Memoir, " Weekending," By Harold Nicolson” 
Antonia Fraser Bess And Old Noll
J. W. Burrow The Mummy's Curse
Bruce Mazlish Are We Ready For An American Lenin?
Bernard Rudofsky The Fashionable Body
Anthony Hartley The Impossibility Of Dropping Out
Michael D. Coe The Shadow Of The Olmecs
Frederic V. Grunfeld "The Most Gifted Human Being That Has Ever Been Born"

Cover: a fisherman recently found this life-size mask of an olmec ruler embedded beneath the bank of a river in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It adds to the rapidly growing stock of knowledge about this enigmatic culture, the first of the great Indian civilizations of America. The incisions on the mask, which is more than twenty-five centuries old, represent various olmec gods. an article on the olmecs by Michael D. Coe begins on page 66.

Title: Horizon, Autumn 1971.
Authors: Joseph Thorndike (Editor)
Publisher: American Heritage Publishing
Publication Date: 1971
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 111pp.
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Language: English
Condition: Fine
Stock Number: RB04904 207GAL

Contents:

Thomas Meehan "If Someone Says His Work Is Art, It's Art" 
John Russell Francis Bacon: A Retrospective And A Preview 
Wilfrid Sheed  The Thurber Carnival 
Morris Bishop Perfide Manon And Abbé Prévost 
W. H. Auden An Encounter 
J. H. Plumb “The Edwardians With A Memoir, " Weekending," By Harold Nicolson” 
Antonia Fraser Bess And Old Noll
J. W. Burrow The Mummy's Curse
Bruce Mazlish Are We Ready For An American Lenin?
Bernard Rudofsky The Fashionable Body
Anthony Hartley The Impossibility Of Dropping Out
Michael D. Coe The Shadow Of The Olmecs
Frederic V. Grunfeld "The Most Gifted Human Being That Has Ever Been Born"

Cover: a fisherman recently found this life-size mask of an olmec ruler embedded beneath the bank of a river in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It adds to the rapidly growing stock of knowledge about this enigmatic culture, the first of the great Indian civilizations of America. The incisions on the mask, which is more than twenty-five centuries old, represent various olmec gods. an article on the olmecs by Michael D. Coe begins on page 66.

Title: Horizon, Autumn 1971.
Authors: Joseph Thorndike (Editor)
Publisher: American Heritage Publishing
Publication Date: 1971
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 111pp.
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Language: English
Condition: Fine
Stock Number: RB04904 207GAL